The Southern Baptist Convention rejected a proposal in June that sought to enshrine a ban on women pastors. But at the local ...

At the World Synod in Rome, four women joined to advocate for ordaining women as deacons. Though the topic remains off the ...

"By virtue of Baptism, women and men have equal dignity as members of the People of God. However, women continue to encounter ...

the fact that women either felt their voices would not be valued or that they would not be safe to speak is significant.

Women are barred from the church's highest ministerial positions ... It leaves open "the question of women's access to diaconal ministry." It was the most contested paragraph of the final document ...

MATTOON, Ill. (WCIA) — Lana Fuller and Theresa from the Women’s Ministry at United Christian Church in Mattoon joined WCIA’s ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church must take concrete steps -- and soon -- to recognize and empower women’s leadership and ministry in the church, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández ...

The two churches' stated reasons for leaving the SBC differ, but are both understood to be due to the wider debate about women in ministry as and standards for church affiliation. The Baptist ...

executive director of New Ways Ministry. The first phase of the synod process ended last year by concluding it was “urgent” to guarantee fuller participation by women in church governance ...

The fallout from a debate in the Southern Baptist Convention about women in ministry, though largely settled at the ... it receives from the SBC’s North American Mission Board for church planting.