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Nationwide, Southern Baptists started 1,018 new congregations in 2021, including 600 new church plants, 135 replants, 201 new affiliations and 82 new campuses.

Brazil's former President published an open letter to evangelicals on Wednesday aimed at countering claims he would persecute their faith and at winning votes among a large and growing part of the population.

John P. Meier, a theologian and biblical commentator whose multi-volume “A Marginal Jew” transformed the Catholic approach to critical historical research into the life of Jesus and religious faith, died Tuesday.

Whitehead made headlines this past summer after he was robbed at gunpoint during his church’s Sunday service livestream.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Eloïse Bouton, who represented the feminist group, Femen, must be paid €9,800 in damages. According to the court, Bouton's 2013 decision to simulate aborting Jesus while topless in a church in Paris is protected.

At last week’s fall board meeting, trustees of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, resolved that although staff should keep teaching and graduating both men and women, “men alone [are] reserved for the office and function, and thereby title of pastor.”

Christopher Daron Smith, a Georgia pastor who had been charged with multiple sex offenses involving the abuse of a minor, was found dead from a single gunshot wound to the head while the trial was on recess.

Born into a tech-saturated world shaken by domestic terrorism and economic instability, Gen-Zers are more likely to report mental health concerns like anxiety and depression than older generations.