The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee will meet April 17 to elect a search committee to find a successor for President Frank Page, who stepped down as chief executive officer March 27 after acknowledging a “personal failing.”

Frank Page resigned as president and chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, effective March 27.

A lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by a Houston layman active in Southern Baptist Convention politics in the 1970s and 1980s has been moved to federal court.

A team from Dallas Baptist University helped renovate the Baptist World Alliance offices during spring break.

Christer Daelander, a Baptist World Alliance representative to the United Nations and religious freedom representative of the European Baptist Federation will receive the 2018 Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board named a presidential search committee to find a successor to David Platt.

The Baptist General Association of Virginia became the second Baptist state convention in recent days to tell any of its affiliated congregations that want to support the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship they should mail their checks directly to the Fellowship.

Baptists began to deal with clergy sexual abuse more significantly when a few women rose to powerful positions in denominational life, one of those women told a crowd at Howard Payne University.

David Platt announced plans to transition out of his role as president of the International Mission Board but will continue to serve until a new president is selected.

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Governing Board adopted a revised hiring policy and implementation procedure that allows LGBT individuals to be considered for some staff positions but maintains limits for ministry leadership positions and missions field personnel.

Ken Hemphill, an administrator at North Greenville University and a former Southern Baptist Convention seminary president, will be nominated for SBC president, a coalition of Southern Baptists announced Feb. 1 via a Baptist state paper.

Two years after withdrawing from a closely contested election for Southern Baptist Convention president, North Carolina pastor J.D. Greear once again will be nominated for SBC president, Florida pastor Ken Whitten announced Jan. 29.