The Latest Breaking News from SBC

The pledge falls short of demands by some survivors, including compensation and stronger independent monitoring.

America's largest Protestant denomination is dominated by the right — but still fears creeping "wokeism"

The vote on sex-abuse reforms, just weeks after the release of a report on the long-simmering scandal, fell short of what some abuse survivors in Southern Baptist churches sought.

The Southern Baptist Convention has elected a new president — Texas pastor Bart Barber

The reforms passed include a "mechanism to track credible accusations against ministers and pastors."

The Southern Baptist Convention has voted overwhelmingly to create a way to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sex abuse

A devastating yearlong investigation into the executive committee of the largest conservative evangelical denomination in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, has documented widespread claims of sex abuse including accusations of rape, cover-ups and gross mistreatment of women seeking justice.

The top administrative committee for the Southern Baptist Convention has elected new leaders

DALLAS — Members of the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, will have an important decision to make at their annual meeting this week: who to elect as their next president.

Recent weeks have seen an especially intense set of revelations about sexual assault and misconduct in U.S. churches

A report named hundreds of church leaders accused or found guilty of abusing children and says survivors were mistreated