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Southern Baptists Launch New Guidelines For Addressing Sexual Abuse In The Church

4:54pm June 12, 2019

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly report Larry Nassar, about her work building guidelines for churches when responding to abuse.

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Faith And Future At The Southern Baptist Convention

3:56pm June 12, 2019

A meeting of the leadership from the U.S.' largest Protestant denomination will address critical questions about the role of women in the church and sex abuse.

Janene Cates Putman of Athens, Tenn., demonstrates outside the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting on Tuesday, during a rally in Birmingham, Ala.

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Southern Baptists Vote To Hold Churches More Accountable For Mishandling Abuse Claims

6:22am June 12, 2019

by Scott Neuman

At their annual meeting held in Birmingham, Ala., the Southern Baptist Convention approved changes making it clear that individual churches can be expelled for covering up abuse cases.

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Vatican Rejects Idea That People Can Choose Or Change Their Gender

5:57pm June 11, 2019

by Sylvia Poggioli

The Vatican says gender is god-given, dismissing the idea that there is any right to choose one's gender. The Vatican said a fluid idea of identity is not "based on the truths of existence."

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Southern Baptist Convention Expected To Focus On Problem Of Sex Abuse In Church

5:57pm June 11, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Houston Chronicle reporter Robert Downen from the Southern Baptist Convention. Downen was on the reporting team that exposed the church's sex abuse scandal.

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Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear speaks to the denomination's executive committee in February. Church leaders meet this week to discuss clergy sexual abuse cases.

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Southern Baptists To Confront Sexual Abuse And Role Of Women In The Church

5:01am June 11, 2019

by Tom Gjelten

The largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. faces allegations of sexual abuse by ministers and controversy over its opposition to women preachIng in church.

A view of St. Peter's Square during a Pentecost Mass celebrated by Pope Francis Sunday. A day later, the Vatican issued a document denying gender identity is a choice.

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Vatican Issues Document During Pride Month Denying Concept Of Gender Identity

9:55pm June 10, 2019

by Amy Held

The document entitled "Male and Female He Created Them," laments what it calls an "educational crisis" around sexuality and reaffirming the church's traditional stance on gender identity.

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Reading Into Changes To The Lord's Prayer

5:41pm June 09, 2019

NPR's Michel Martin talks to biblical scholar Meredith Warren about the changes to the Lord's Prayer approved by Pope Francis.

The unfinished Sagrada Familia basilica was finally granted a building permit on Friday after going without one for 137 years. The church's foundation and the city of Barcelona came to a historic agreement, with the foundation agreeing to pay the city mil

Not Too Little Too Late. Unfinished Gaudí Basilica Gets Permit 137 Years Later

5:19pm June 09, 2019

by Gabriela Saldivia

The Sagrada Familia church got the permit Friday, allowing construction to continue with completion projected for 2026. The church's foundation agreed to pay the city of Barcelona millions of dollars.

Amber Scorah writes about exiting the Jehovah's Witnesses in Leaving the Witness.

'Leaving The Witness': The End Of The World As She Knew It, Upon Losing Her Religion

2:02pm June 05, 2019

by Rachel Martin

Amber Scorah was a Jehovah's Witness and a missionary in China when she began to harbor doubts about the apocalypse. Disavowed by nearly everyone she knew, her memoir is a tale of starting over.

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