STATEN ISLAND — Fellowship Baptist Church was filled with celebration, gratitude and vision as members and guests gathered ...

Gaines, a former Bellevue Baptist Church pastor and Southern Baptist Convention president, has died after a two-year battle with cancer.

Steve Gaines, longtime pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis and a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, died March 20 after a long battle with cancer.

Last week, current lead pastor Ben Mandrell announced to the church congregation Gaines has entered hospice care.

OMAHA, NE / ACCESS Newswire / March 18, 2026 / Salem Baptist Church marked a defining moment in its more than 100-year ...

It was a year ago when Rev. Zina Jacque, the interim pastor at Broadneck Baptist Church posted her first video on Instagram. Now she’s an internet star.

Former Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines has entered hospice care, over two years after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer ...

One of Memphis’ most influential spiritual voices is facing a difficult chapter in a long, faith‑filled journey. Bellevue ...

Now and then: First Baptist Church of Tuscola (above) at the northeast corner of Daggy and Court streets. The steeple and bell in the older photo (below) were removed in 1994, and the latter found its ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice ...

A legendary Hoover pastor, who was still preaching into his 90s at a Birmingham church in the past month, has died. The Rev. James A. Auchmuty Jr., who was pastor of Shades Crest Baptist Church in ...