Citing his advancing age and a need to plan for the future, Fred Luter Jr., the longtime senior pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, who served as the Southern Baptist ...

NEW ORLEANS - The Southern Baptist Convention voted Tuesday to elect its first African-American president in one of its biggest steps yet to reconcile the 167-year-old denomination's troubled racial ...

After 39 years leading Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, one of the largest megachurches in the New Orleans area, Pastor Fred Luter Jr. announced Sunday that he plans to retire next fall. In his place, ...

Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter said he wants more diversity in the 16 million member organization.Luter, the first black president of the convention, was in Jackson Wednesday for the ...

JAZZ: THE REV. FRED LUTER JR, pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, was elected vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the group's annual meeting in Phoenix Tuesday. The SBC is the ...

The recently elected leader of the Southern Baptist Convention will speak at Ridgecrest Baptist Church tonight in Dothan. Rev. Fred Luter Jr., the pastor of New Orleans’ Franklin Avenue Baptist Church ...

New Orleans pastor is described as 'the fire-breathing, miracle-working pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church' In less than five minutes, the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday made history ...

NEW ORLEANS - The Southern Baptist Convention began in 1845 in support of slaveholders and is now poised to elect its first African-American president, the Rev. Fred Luter Jr., later this month. "It's ...

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The largest U.S. Protestant denomination chose its first black president on Tuesday, an historic election for the predominately white religious group as it seeks to better ...

The election of Rev. Fred Luter as the first black president of the Southern Baptist Convention has energized members of the nation's largest Protestant denomination. The choice of Luter, a pastor in ...