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Each year on Aug. 29, the Church commemorates the beheading of John the Baptist, as recounted in the first three Gospels. The actual resting place of the saint remains uncertain, particularly the fate ...

Christ's baptism by John the Baptist is depicted in a stained-glass window at Blessed Sacrament Church in Valley Stream, N.Y. The feast of the Baptism of the Lord, celebrated Jan. 8 in 2024, marks the ...

These four religious sites claim to possess the remains of the biblical preacher’s skull. But is there any evidence? Salome receives the head of John the Baptist in this early 17th century painting by ...

It is impossible to imagine the terror that surely struck the heart of John the Baptist as the executioner approached his prison cell. The executioner would have been ...

Star pastor Rick Warren’s last stand before the messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention generated buzz. Saddleback, the church he founded, lost its appeal and was expelled from the SBC because ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, took a major stand on the role of women in the church, emphatically making clear that the office of pastor ...

Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention's annual conference voted overwhelmingly this week to confirm the expulsion of Saddleback Church in California, previously the second-largest Southern ...

Saddleback Church’s founding pastor, Rick Warren, represented the congregation on Tuesday at the convention, asking the more than 12,000 gathered church representatives, called messengers, to stay ...