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

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

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

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

Southern Baptists point to that verse to support limiting the role of pastors to men. McKnight believes that statement dealt with a specific situation in a specific church, ...

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, ...

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 make up about a fifth of all U.S. evangelical Protestants (21%). The total number of Southern Baptists in the U.S. – and their share of the population – is falling. When the first ...

(RNS) — Southern Baptists, after lengthy debate Wednesday (June 14), voted on new language for their constitution that would state only men can be pastors of the nation’s largest Protestant ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Southern Baptists on Wednesday condemned the use of in vitro fertilization in a proclamation that will add to the intense debates over reproductive rights raging across the U.S ...

After overwhelmingly voting to finalize the expulsion of two churches with female pastors, Southern Baptists voted on Wednesday to further expand restrictions on women in church leadership, ...

Southern Baptists narrowly vote against banning women pastors 03:46. Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in the denomination's ...