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Pope Francis has taken another step to reign in new religious groups in the Catholic Church after their unregulated proliferation in recent decades led to abuses in governance that allowed spiritual and sexual misconduct to go unchecked.

Several motions presented at the annual meeting related to sexual abuse care and prevention in addition to other subjects of interest to Southern Baptists.

Britain announced a new round of sanctions against Russia, targeting the head of the Russian Orthodox Church for his prominent support for the war in Ukraine as well as Russia's children's rights commissioner.

Bart Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church of Farmersville, Texas, was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) on Tuesday, June 14, after winning in a runoff against Florida pastor Tom Ascol.

The Christian Reformed Church, a small evangelical denomination of U.S. and Canadian churches, voted at its annual synod to codify its opposition to homosexual sex by elevating it to its declaration of faith.

Instead of shaking hands with their school’s interim president when receiving diplomas Sunday, about 50 Seattle Pacific University graduates handed him a rainbow flag instead. For some, the commencement ceremony was an opportunity to object to the Christian school’s policy against hiring LGBTQ employees.

On Tuesday, the SBC’s Sexual Abuse Taskforce (SATF) gave its highly anticipated report to SBC messengers in Anaheim and presented recommended reforms. Those proposed reforms were overwhelmingly accepted.

The church has an important opportunity to care for vulnerable women and their children regardless of whether the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, speakers said Monday night at an event hosted by the ERLC.