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NEW ORLEANS -- Southern Baptists took the first step Wednesday toward amending their constitution so that churches with female pastors would no longer qualify to be part of the nation's largest Protestant denomination. Baptists also expelled two congregations that have female pastors. Saddleback Church, the southern California megachurch founded by Pastor Rick Warren in 1980, was deemed "not

An Ohio man who was on the lam after shooting a West Virginia State Patrol officer earlier in the day was shot and killed Monday night running from a wood line near Sunset Hills Missionary Church on Independence Road near Coal City. Scott O’Brien was still armed as troopers gave chase, according to a press release from state police. Troopers were able to identify and visually confirm that the

A police officer responding to a call struck and killed a well-known church pastor in Connecticut, authorities said. Stamford Police Officer Zachary Lockwood, 24, was driving a police sport utility vehicle when he hit 69-year-old Tommie Jackson shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday, according to a Connecticut State Police accident report. Jackson, a pastor at Rehoboth Fellowship Church and Faith

Clergy who are guilty of serious misconduct may be stripped of their holy orders after the Church of England’s ruling body voted to reinstate “defrocking”.

All priests, from newly ordained curates to the archbishop of Canterbury, could be defrocked under new disciplinary measures backed by the General Synod, which is meeting in York.

The power to defrock clergy was abolished more