More than 10,000 local church messengers are expected at the SBC's annual meeting in Dallas next week — where they'll debate ...

Southern Baptists are cracking down on women in ministry. They did so this week at their annual meeting ... Baptist Church in San Angelo, Texas, was among the smaller group of women messengers.

Barr, already well-known for her 2020 book The Making of Biblical Womanhood, is herself a Baptist pastor’s wife. She agrees ...

Congregations around the world held small group sessions to discuss ... and contemporary role of women in ministry within the church. The Vatican meeting will include both laity and clergy talking ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church must ... about the study group his office is coordinating on women’s ministry and roles within the church. At the second meeting, participants again ...

After a month of closed-door debate, Francis' meeting on ... in particular women seeking the restoration of female deacons, a ministry that existed in the early church. In the end, as the votes ...

Women’s ministry titles have been the most talked-about issue going into next week’s Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting ... to attend church, belong to a small group, pray ...

Sister Christine Schenk, an American nun, author and founder of international reform-focused group “FutureChurch ... full inclusion of women in every aspect of church ministry and decision ...

Three independent sources confirmed the details of the meeting ... Instead the study group is now focusing on the various ways in which women have exercised authority in the church.

Fernández said the group was instead examining historical ways women have exercised authority in the Church apart from ordained ministry ... the content of these meetings. He also received ...

The meeting itself didn't ... inspired in particular women seeking the restoration of female deacons, a ministry that existed in the early church. In the end, the gathering made its strongest ...