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The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund announced a $3.8 million grant on Tuesday aimed at helping to preserve 40 historical sites related to African American history, including four Black churches.

The 2023 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), which took place in New Orleans on June 13-14, has come to a close—but the decisions made during the meeting will have an ongoing impact. Among the most significant events from the week were those pertaining to women in church leadership. 

Newly re-elected SBC president Bart Barber emphasized unity and consensus during a press conference on Wednesday, focusing his comments on missions work, male eldership, and abuse reform.

Saddleback Church’s founder and former senior pastor Rick Warren held a non-SBC-affiliated press conference shortly after the tallies were announced.

Newly reelected SBC President Bart Barber praised the abuse reform task force, which he appointed last year, for their diligent work.

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 denomination.

To date, more than 5,550 of the United Methodist Church’s approximately 30,000 U.S. churches have disaffiliated from the country’s second-largest Protestant denomination since 2019.

Bodies of victims to Kenyan pastor Paul Makenzie Nthenge’s starvation cult continue to be discovered. The death toll has now surpassed 300.