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

Southern Baptists lost one of their biggest congregations last week amid tensions in the largest U.S. Protestant denomination over women at the pulpit. The Matthews, North Carolina-based Elevation ...

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

Christianity Southern Baptists choose new president following sex abuse scandal, financial difficulties Jeff Iorg, current president of only Baptist seminary outside Bible Belt, chosen as new ...

It was signed two years after the issue of slavery prompted southern Baptists to split from northern Baptists and form the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

DALLAS (AP) — Southern Baptists overwhelmingly endorsed a ban on gay marriage — including a call for a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 10-year-old precedent legalizing it nationwide. They also ...

Southern Baptists are the largest Protestant denomination in America. Over 15, perhaps close to 20,000 messengers will descend on Nashville. And they will vote on a series of issues, ...

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.

The decision comes from an influential faction of President Trump's base and sends a message to the White House.

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...

The same day that Baptists voted overwhelmingly to oppose the use of I.V.F. as it is typically practiced, Senator Katie Britt of Alabama took to the Senate floor to defend a bill she introduced in ...

Cooperative Program giving in June jumped over giving in the same month a year ago. Baptists gave $1,783,569 last month, ...