The hearing marked the first step in a second lawsuit filed against the Abyssinian Baptist Church over the election of the ...

As the global church looks ahead to the 2,000th anniversary of Pentecost and the birth of the Christian church in 2033, the ...

Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church, 1204 St. Joseph St., Baton Rouge, will celebrate the pastoral anniversary of Pastor Henry J ...

Today, with 20,500,000 members, the Baptists are the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., and within that denomination the Southern Baptist Conference accounts for nearly half—9,500,000.* ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — How tough is it to create a racially diverse denomination? Consider a recent luncheon organized by the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant ...

Baptists, like all religions, are losing members who are leaving religion altogether. But this isn’t the major source of Baptist losses. Among those who have left a Baptist church, only one-in ...

Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear speaks to the denomination's executive committee in Nashville in February 2019. (Mark Humphrey/AP) ...

The debates over race within Southern Baptist circles have been some of the most intense in years. The Southern Baptist Convention, which was founded in support of slaveholding missionaries in ...

The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's largest Protestant denomination and is holding its annual meeting in Dallas.