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Ted Traylor, pastor of Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., intends to nominate Georgia pastor Frank Cox for the office of SBC president Tuesday (June 14) during the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting.

Police in San Jose, California, have made more arrests in last September’s alleged exorcism death of 3-year-old Arely Naomi Proctor. In addition to the victim’s mother, who was arrested in January, the victim’s uncle and pastor-grandfather also are in custody now, being held without bail.

Saddleback Church, one of the largest churches in the Southern Baptist Convention and in the nation as a whole, will not be disfellowshipped by the SBC’s Credentials Committee—at least not yet. 

Saddleback Church in Southern California has cleared Rick Warren successor Andy Wood following an investigation into allegations of an abusive leadership style. 

With $4 million now pledged from Send Relief toward funding sexual abuse reforms, Executive Committee members voted Monday to rescind their recently approved recommendations for that same objective.

Pope Francis has complained that traditionalist Catholics, particularly in the United States, are “gagging” the church’s modernizing reforms and insisted that there was no turning back.

For tens of millions of Americans who see abortion as wrong, it’s gone this way for a half-century.

One week after members of the Canadian megachurch The Meeting House saw their former pastor Bruxy Cavey arrested and charged with sexual assault, their leadership revealed that not one but four of its former pastors have now been credibly accused — and two convicted — of sexual abuse.