The Rev. Marshall Blalock feels the weight of his new responsibility. The South Carolina pastor serves as vice chair of a recently formed Southern Baptist Convention task force charged with overseeing an investigation into how a top denominational committee handled sex abuse allegations, a review that comes years into the SBC's public reckoning with the scandal.

The Southern Baptist sex abuse scandal was thrust into the spotlight in 2019 by a landmark report from the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News documenting hundreds of cases, including several in which alleged perpetrators remained in ministry.

Amid the Boy Scouts of America’s complex bankruptcy case, there is worsening friction between the BSA and the major religious groups that help it run thousands of scout units.

Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers have set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice" in the building that once housed the Women's Affairs Ministry.

France’s Notre Dame Cathedral is finally stable and secure enough for artisans to start rebuilding it, more than two years after a shocking fire.

It was an hour President Joe Biden would no doubt like to forget. Headlines, all within an hour, underscored the perils for any president from situations that can define a term in office.

A 16-year-old boy was detained Thursday in connection with a possible plan for an Islamic extremist attack on a synagogue in the German city of Hagen.

Religious objections, once used sparingly around the country to get exempted from various required vaccines, are becoming a much more widely used loophole.

COVID-19 vaccine refusal rates may be high among white evangelical Christians, but the International Mission Board — which deploys thousands of missionaries — is not hesitant about the shot.

As significant numbers of Americans seek religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccine mandates, many faith leaders are saying: Not with our endorsement.