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Thousands will gather in Indianapolis June 11-12 for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. The meeting comes at a fraught time in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Delegates

Thousands will gather in Indianapolis June 11-12 for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.The meeting comes at a fraught time in the

Thousands will gather in Indianapolis this week for the annual meeting of Southern Baptists, the largest Protestant denomination in the country.

A seminary president this week identified key figures in the first criminal case stemming from a U.S. Department of Justice investigation of the Southern Baptist Convention, saying things became clearer when a witness changed his story.

A second former official of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has been identified as one of the leaders at the Texas school under investigation in a probe of 2022 sexual abuse allegations.

The president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has weighed in with a public statement identifying the two other employees mentioned but not named in a federal indictment.

A North Carolina Baptist church has suspended its pastor after he was indicted on allegations of giving false records to the FBI.

The former seminary administrator indicted last week on charges of obstruction of justice in a sexual abuse case has been placed on administrative leave by his church. Matt Queen also last week pleaded not guilty to the federal charges.

In charging documents accusing a former seminary official of obstructing a federal investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice signaled that it has been engaged since around 2022 in a broader inquiry into alleged sexual abuse cover-ups in the Southern Baptist Convention.

The Department of Justice has charged former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary evangelism professor Matthew Queen with falsifying records connected to its investigation of the Southern Baptist Convention.