Thousands of Southern Baptists have voted overwhelmingly to advance a formal ban on churches with women pastors in the nation’s largest conservative evangelical denomination.

Southern Baptists elected a new leader who has decried a “decline and drift” within the denomination.

A majority of U.S. Catholic voters supported Donald Trump in his 2024 presidential victory.

Southern Baptist representatives have fended off two efforts to move the staunchly conservative body even more sharply to the right.