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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 15, 2022

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) said Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the Nashville-based Christian denomination related to alleged sexual abuse. The organization said the investigation “will include multiple SBC entities” and that the SBC will “fully and completely cooperate,” Nashville Public Radio reports. A third-party report released in May alleged that denomination leaders downplayed and ignored sexual abuse within its churches for decades. The SBC also last week named a nine-person task force to reform how the church will respond to sex abuse in the future.