The new president of the Southern Baptist Convention says that the issue of sexual abuse in the denomination has been “weaponized” and politicized.

The status of a federal investigation into a leading Southern Baptist agency’s handling of sexual abuse is unclear.

The Southern Baptist Convention has voted overwhelmingly to create a way to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sex abuse.

A blistering report on the Southern Baptist Convention’s mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denomination, for the first time, will create a publicly accessible database of pastors known to be abusers.