Hispanic pastors from California, Florida and Texas discussed strategies to lead the church in a post-COVID world during a panel discussion in the exhibit hall at the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

06/20/2022 - By Keila Diaz / Baptist Press

Baptist pastor Lorenzo Ortiz, who operates five shelters for migrants in northern Mexico, was released unharmed after being held hostage by a Mexican cartel for about 29 hours.

06/20/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Ed Litton, the immediate past president of the Southern Baptist Convention, former SBC president Fred Luter and noted author and Texas pastor Tony Evans announced an initiative to build racial unity nationwide, conducted by local churches.

06/17/2022 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Southern Baptists publicly lamented the harm their “actions and inactions have caused to survivors of sexual abuse” in a resolution adopted by messengers to the 2022 SBC annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

06/17/2022 - By Erin Roach / Baptist Press

El domingo 12 de junio por la noche, 500 pastores, esposas, misioneros y líderes hispanos se reunieron para una noche de compañerismo, adoración y aliento en el Anaheim Convention Center antes de la reunión anual de la Convención Bautista del Sur.

06/16/2022 - By Keila Diaz / Baptist Press

After much discussion, the Southern Baptist Convention’s credentials committee chose to withdraw its recommendation related to Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.

06/15/2022 - By Timothy Cockes / Baptist Press

Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton calls it a “gut punch”—Jesus’ reference to his disciples as an “unbelieving and perverse generation.”

06/15/2022 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Messengers to the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting overwhelmingly approved recommendations to address sexual abuse in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

06/15/2022 - By Adelle M. Banks & Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention elected Texas pastor Bart Barber as president, voted to create an Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force, and authorized development of a Ministry Check website of individuals credibly accused of sexual abuse.

06/15/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Georgia pastor Frank Cox joins Tom Ascol, Bart Barber and Robin Hadaway as announced candidates for president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

06/14/2022 - By Jonathan Howe / Baptist Press

About 500 Hispanic Southern Baptists gathered for a night of fellowship, worship and encouragement in the Anaheim Convention Center preceding the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

06/14/2022 - By Keila Diaz / Baptist Press

Instead of gathering at a venue near a convention center, participants in this year’s Woman’s Missionary Union missions celebration loaded onto three buses for an experience called Embark: WMU’s Rolling Missions Adventure.

06/14/2022 - By Grace Thornton / Baptist Press