Members of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich vote Sept. 27 on whether to write environmental obligations into the Church Ordinance, the constitutional text of the cantonal church. The proposal sets a target of net-zero emissions from church properties by the end of 2035 and would require every parish to adopt an environmental management system known as the "Grüner Güggel."
Born in the 19th century, church leader Uchimura Kanzō critiqued his country’s growing militarism out of his love for Jesus and Japan.
Florida Pastor Willy Rice was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday, succeeding Pastor Clint Pressley as leader of the nation's largest Protestant denomination.
On the third and final day of the Asia Conference on Church & Mission, three church leaders from across Asia called evangelical congregations and denominational networks to stop measuring ministry success by attendance figures and program activity, arguing that the global church's failure to prioritize discipleship has produced a generation of spiritually shallow Christians — and that only a deliberate, relational, and intergenerational approach to disciple-making can reverse it.
The proposed ban on churches with women pastors or those that allow women to preach was approved by three-quarters of church messengers gathered in Orlando.
The reversal comes five years after the foster care and adoption agency first agreed to partner with LGBTQ couples.
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ORLANDO (BP) – Southern Baptists gathered at the annual meeting to elect a new president, take actions that will shape the SBC in years to come and celebrate more than 1,000 salvations through Crossover alongside fellowship and reuniting with others.
ORLANDO (BP) – More than 40 resolutions were submitted by Southern Baptists for consideration by the SBC Committee on Resolutions this year, and the committee used 18 of those to craft the 11 resolutions adopted by messengers to the SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando June 9-10.
ORLANDO – On Tuesday afternoon, June 9, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary President Danny Akin presented his 23rd and final seminary report to messengers at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting. As Akin, who will retire on July 31, stood to deliver his report, messengers honored him with a standing ovation.
In central India’s Chhattisgarh state, followers of tribal religion in Bastar District recently dug up the grave of a tribal Christian buried 20 years before. They unearthed his skeleton, burned it and scattered the ashes.
