Newly Ordained Deacons from First Baptist Church. From left: Jean Panzitta, Gail Nossavage, David Miller, Joseph Stemba, Dorothy Miller, and Jane Lussi. Absent from photo Kenneth Jordan. Photo by Sam ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — A committee that determines whether churches are conforming to Southern Baptist Convention affiliation rules will consider whether Saddleback Church, a prominent California ...

Casey Stanton, left, and the Rev. Mario Gomez, OFM, raise up the prayers people have written down at the culmination of a 3-night parish retreat at Immaculate Conception Parish in Durham, North ...

Sixth-century mosaic depicting holy women with offerings to the Virgin Mary in the Basilica of Saint Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy. (Wikimedia Commons) This article is part of The Conversation ...

Sister Theresa Kane, a champion for women's ordination in the Catholic church, has died. She even spoke directly to Pope John Paul II about the issue during his visit to the U.S. in 1979. One of the ...

As the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic approaches, I recall (with the aid of Google Calendar) that my last work trip before the lockdown was in January 2020 to cover the lead-up to the ...

Truett Seminary has created another alliance with a conservative branch of Mainline Protestantism — an Anglican Episcopal ...

That thought bubbled to the surface on Wednesday when the Rev. Valerie Steele, of Oklahoma City, learned that her long-held hope had been realized: the United Methodist Church overturned a 40-year ban ...

Jared Olivetti, the former pastor of the Immanuel Reformed Presbyterian Church in West Lafayette accused of mishandling child sex abuse in his congregation, has been defrocked following an ...

LOS ANGELES — A debate that has raged within the Presbyterian Church for more than three decades culminated Tuesday with ratification of a measure allowing the ordination of gay and lesbian ministers ...

The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has urged its followers “not to be misled” by media reports about the recent appointment of a controversial evangelical pastor as a bishop. Pastor Jerome Fernando, who ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gays and lesbians moved a step closer to ordination in the Presbyterian church after a legislative committee approved a measure Tuesday that would partly lift the church's ban on ...