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In this June 16, 2021, file photo, people attend the morning session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn.

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Southern Baptist leader resigns amid internal division over sex abuse review

1:22pm October 15, 2021

by The Associated Press

President and CEO of the SBC's Executive Committee Ronnie Floyd announced his departure Thursday in a statement critical of recent decisions related to the third-party review.

Sharmistha Chaudhuri (center, wearing pink), 35, at her wedding in Kolkata, India, in January 2020. Chaudhuri found some Indian wedding traditions retrograde, so she hired four feminist priestesses to officiate at hers. They performed a multilingual, egal

Hindu priestesses fight the patriarchy, one Indian wedding at a time

9:20am October 15, 2021

by Lauren Frayer

The priestesses are part of a feminist push to make Hinduism more inclusive. Some have begun officiating at Indian weddings stripped of patriarchal traditions: No more "donating" brides to in-laws.

Why a popular Tibetan Buddhist monastery is under investigation

5:00pm October 12, 2021

by Emily Feng

Red City Monastery was a thriving Tibetan Buddhist institution that attracted tens of thousands of wealthy pilgrims a year. Now it's under investigation.

A civil rights activist holds a placard during a 2020 demonstration in Bengaluru, India, condemning the proposal in several states of laws against so-called "love jihad." That's an unfounded conspiracy theory spread by Hindu nationalists who accuse Muslim

In India, boy meets girl, proposes — and gets accused of jihad

7:00am October 10, 2021

by Lauren Frayer

New state laws make it harder for interfaith couples to marry. The idea is to halt forced marital religious conversions. But they've emboldened extremists to interrupt weddings.

A Hispanic church in Tennessee is grieving the loss of its charismatic founder

7:32am October 08, 2021

by Blake Farmer

German Castro died last month at the age of 57 — part of an avoidable surge of COVID-19 deaths across the South where vaccination rates lag.

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Pope encourages religious leaders to appeal for humanitarian needs over weapons

7:28am October 08, 2021

Pope Francis hosted an ecumenical prayer service with religious and world leaders in Rome, calling on the world to spend money on food and vaccines rather than military needs.

Reginald F. Davis, from left, pastor of First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Connie Matthews Harshaw, a member of First Baptist, and Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg's director of archaeology, stand at the brick-and-mortar foundation of one the oldest Bl

The remnants of one of the nation's oldest Black churches have just been found

7:54am October 07, 2021

by The Associated Press

The discovery of the First Baptist Church in Colonial WIlliamsburg comes as the living history museum is reckoning with its storytelling about the country's origins and the role of Black Americans.

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A new report in France says hundreds of thousands of children have been abused by priests and others working in the Catholic Church over the last 70 years.