Louisiana can proceed with a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, according to a federal court ...

INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — At their annual meeting, Southern Baptists joined the recently renewed debate over in vitro fertilization, passing a resolution calling for restrictions on the practice. Some ...

Early on April 4 morning, the following message appeared on the Twitter account of the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the newly elected U.S. senator from Georgia: “The meaning of Easter is more transcendent ...

INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — Southern Baptists failed to adopt a change in their constitution that would explicitly state that “only men” can be “any kind of pastor” in affiliated churches. The Wednesday ...

The vote at the Southern Baptist Convention raising alarms about in vitro fertilization began with two conservatives at a seminary in Kentucky. By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham, who writes about religion, ...

The Southern Baptists Convention has wrapped with votes on banning churches with women pastors and opposing IVF reproductive practices plus revisiting reforms proposed to handle sex abuse claims. It's ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in the denomination’s constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary ...

Fifty years ago, speakers at the first congress of the Baptist World Alliance pounded the rostrum in London’s massive, red brick Royal Albert Hall, predicted that the Alliance’s next meeting in London ...

In 1985 gilbert gauthe, a cowboy-boot-wearing showboat of a priest in southern Louisiana, was convicted of abusing dozens of altar boys. It was one of the first of the sexual-abuse scandals that for ...