Homeland Security Cuts Down Wait Times for Religious Worker Visas
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Messengers hear seminary updates | Baptist Press
DALLAS (BP) -- The six Southern Baptist seminaries gave reports to messengers in the final session of the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting.
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Luther Seminary Announces Plans to Sell Upper Campus as Majority of Students Study Online
After more than 120 years in St Paul, Minnesota, Luther Seminary, the largest seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, will sell its 10-acre upper campus
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Vote To Bar Churches With Women Pastors Fails Again at SBC Meeting
A vote to abolish the SBC’s public policy arm, known as the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, also failed on Wednesday afternoon.
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English Village Church Bell Silenced after 177 Years over Noise Complaints
A historic Anglican church in a small English town has silenced its bells after 177 years following noise complaints, prompting outrage from local villagers who claim the move has upended a long
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SBC Motion to Ban Female Pastors Fails with over 60% Support
The Southern Baptist Convention failed to pass a motion to prohibit member churches from employing women in any pastor role, a similar measure to the Law Amendment that was narrowly defeated last
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Asian Evangelical Leadership Forum Opens in Seoul with Renewed Call for Discipleship
With a clear and urgent call to renew commitment to discipleship amid a rapidly changing global landscape, the Asia Evangelical Leadership Forum AELF officially opened Wednesday in Seoul, South Korea
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‘Now is the time’: Evangelical media expert urges Church in Asia to harness AI for the Great Commission
In a sweeping keynote address on the morning of the second day of the Asia Evangelical Leadership Forum (AELF), Mark McClendon, Regional Director for CBN Southeast Asia & South Korea, called on Christian leaders to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) not as a threat but as a God-given opportunity for the global Church to complete the Great Commission.
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Amendment on role of women in pastoral ministry fails to achieve 2/3 vote | Baptist Press
DALLAS (BP) – A proposed amendment to the SBC Constitution stating the office of pastor should be held only by men was rejected by messengers, receiving approximately 60 percent of the vote, but not reaching the required two-thirds marker.
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Tony Wolfe invites Christians into a ‘lifetime of faithful and faith-filled sowing’ during convention sermon | Baptist Press
DALLAS (BP) – During the June 11 morning session of the SBC annual meeting in Dallas, Tony Wolfe, executive director of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, drew from Ecclesiastes 11:1-6, which employs metaphors about casting bread on the water and watching for rain, wind and falling trees, to celebrate the…
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Resolutions include moral clarity, sports betting, banning pornography | Baptist Press
DALLAS (BP) – A collective resolution on restoring moral clarity regarding gender, marriage and the family arguably covered the most ground on Southern Baptist concerns, but messengers also approved measures aimed at pornography, chemical abortion pills, international religious freedom and the growing threat of online sports betting at the 2025…
