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Southern Baptist abuse task force requests $3 million for reforms, ‘Ministry Check’ website
By Bob Smietana — June 1, 2022
(RNS) — Reforms would include a website to track abusers and hiring staff to respond to abuse allegations.
Southern Baptist list includes hundreds of cases of abuse, beginning in the 1960s
By Bob Smietana — May 27, 2022
(RNS) — Southern Baptist leaders began compiling the list in 2007, when the convention was considering creating a database of abusers. That idea was rejected but an SBC staffer continued to update the list for years.
There’s a new Baptist sex abuser database, but SBC action is still needed
By Christa Brown — May 4, 2020
(RNS) — For more than a decade, abuse survivor advocates have been asking the Southern Baptist Convention to establish a clergy predator database and for just as long they've been confronted with a denomination determined to do nothing.
Southern Baptist leaders plan to remedy ‘insufficient’ approach to abuse claims
By Adelle M. Banks — June 3, 2019
(RNS) — Their denomination’s Executive Committee may also vote to create a year-round Credentials Committee that will consider complaints about churches mishandling abuse or 'discriminatory behavior on the basis of ethnicity.'
Baptists who split from Southern Baptist Convention have own sex abuse policies
By Adelle M. Banks — March 6, 2019
(RNS) — As the Southern Baptists grapple with how to address sex abuse allegations, three other Baptist networks that split from them have already taken steps to educate and assist their congregations should they face similar situations.
Southern Baptist minister list included sex offenders
By Adelle M. Banks — February 14, 2019
(RNS) — 'Names can be removed from a list, but the hurt victims deal with is more indelible,' said a spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.
Southern Baptist leaders vow to improve addressing sex abuse after papers’ report
By Adelle M. Banks — February 11, 2019
(RNS) — 'I am committed to doing everything possible to ensure we never make these mistakes again,' Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear said in response to an investigation by Texan newspapers.
Israel’s proposed international Jewish database raises red flags abroad
By Yonat Shimron — April 11, 2017
JERUSALEM (RNS) Many fear such a database will not recognize the legitimacy of most Jews, will breach confidentiality and, in the wrong hands, could be used in sinister ways.
Mormon church blocks whistle-blower’s access to baptism data
By Tracy Gordon — March 8, 2012
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) A technological crackdown has effectively blocked the pre-eminent whistle-blower of controversial proxy baptisms from accessing a Mormon database that chronicles so-called baptisms for the dead. By Derek Jensen.
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