A conservative Lutheran church in Norway will ordain its first female ministers in January, joining the growing number of Protestant ... While the ordination allows the women to lead as pastors, the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The United Methodist Church, which boasts a history of ordaining women clergy, is seeking to shatter the so-called "stained-glass ceiling" blocking female pastors from its largest ...

As the rumor goes, he needed more than a dozen stitches after a fall at age 95 and then volunteered with Habitat for Humanity ...

Church leaders are resurrecting old barriers that we spent years tearing down, and they're adding new barriers.” ...

Southern Baptist Convention bans female pastors, ejecting several churches in the process The Southern Baptist Convention moved to strike women from holding leadership roles in its churches.

Carter, who died at age 100 on Sunday, was a lifelong Baptist but was the first American president to welcome a pope to the ...

In yet another sign of how much the tide has started to turn, a number of key leaders of Christian denominations throughout ...

Well done, good and faithful servant, well done,' Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock said of former President Jimmy Carter.

Across faiths and across the globe, prominent individuals whose legacies are likely to continue to shape their ministries and ...

Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer and Naval officer who became the 39th president of the United States and eventually ...

Christianity has produced pastors who feed the congregations the word of God. These pastors are seen as leaders and spiritual fathers for the Christians. Some pastors also engage in other money-making ...

Carter was also a Southern Baptist until 2000, when he left the denomination after it revised its statement of faith to insist wives submit to their husbands and banned female pastors. Well into ...