Disqualified challengers hoped sufficient ‘no’ votes would cause election process to restart.
After an unusual election that gave voters the choice on the ballot of a name or a “no,” members of the National Baptist Convention, USA, lined up behind a new president.
As the annual session of the National Baptist Convention, USA, the historically Black denomination, opened on Tuesday (Sept. 3), the biggest question that loomed is how the meeting will end: Will it have a new ...
(RNS) — The African Methodist Episcopal Church announced a settlement agreement with a number of its clergy who had sued the denomination, accusing it of mishandling their retirement funds. The settlement, which must still be ...
Mother Mary P. Patterson, who was the widow of a Church of God in Christ presiding bishop and became known for her efforts to preserve the history of the historically Black Pentecostal denomination, died June ...
Bishop Sean Rowe of the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania and the Diocese of Western New York has been named the next presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, succeeding Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, who concludes a ...
The amendment would have to added ‘only men’ pastors language to constitution
Southern Baptists failed to adopt a change in their constitution that would explicitly state that “only men” can be “any kind of pastor” in affiliated churches.
Religious schools grew 82% from 1980 to 2020, while national average was 57%.
A prominent association of American colleges and universities has created a new commission of religious schools whose aim will be to share with their nonreligious counterparts recent successes in the areas of access and affordability ...
Fact-finding website Snopes reported that videos claiming Jakes had resigned as senior pastor were false
The fact-checking website Snopes has determined that Bishop T.D. Jakes has been the victim of misinformation partly generated by artificial intelligence.