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The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention paused in prayer Wednesday to mark the death of Jennifer Lyell, a former Lifeway Christian Resources executive and abuse survivor who played
DALLAS (BP) – “The State of the SBC” panel discussion presented by 9Marks drew a late-night crowd that filled a 1,750-seat theater at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas June 10.
DALLAS (BP) – They don’t get the same hype or recognition as some of the larger congregations within the Southern Baptist Convention. Still, Mark Clifton says most churches within the SBC are small, with 200 or fewer members.
Small church pastors are encouraged to leverage their strengths to avoid permanently closing their doors, according to a Christian research group s analysis of multiple reports related to church
Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday endorsed a resolution urging the reversal of laws that go against Biblical marriage. The vote came during the convention’s annual meeting in D...
Casting a pall over the gathering is the recent death of one of the most high-profile whistleblowers in the Southern Baptists’ scandal of sexual abuse.
The Southern Baptist Convention has overwhelmingly passed resolutions calling for bans on same-sex marriage, pornography, and the abortion pill
A large church in China that has regrouped and spread after authorities dismantled it in 2018 has faced renewed detentions and closures in the past few weeks, rights monitor Bitter Winter reported.
Five churches organized the event out of a conviction of their faith, but as an invisible network.
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Churches affiliated with China’s state-sanctioned Three-Self Patriotic Movement have effectively been required to sing a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) anthem before the closing benediction in Sunday worship services, according to recent reports. The mandate has sparked serious concern, as it is viewed not merely as a formal adjustment but as a deliberate shift intended to displace God from the center of worship and replace Him with loyalty to the Communist Party.
