The annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention voted to affirm a decision made earlier this year to remove Saddleback Church, a major southern California congregation founded by the pastor ...

Among the Second Baptist members to join Jeremiah Counsel's suit, 58-year-old Houston businessman Rob Hungate, told Chron that he began routinely attending the church with his wife in 2006.

In a series of decisions on abuse reform and the status of women pastors, Southern Baptist voting delegates, called messengers, refined what it means to be an autonomous church and still affiliate ...

Most Baptist churches have a baptistery, which is more or less a pool (about 4m by 3m) in the church. During a baptismal service the minister and the person being baptised enter the water.