Southern Baptist congregations shed nearly half a million members in 2022, the denomination's biggest one-year loss in more than a century, amid a damaging sex abuse scandal, show.Research from Lifeway Christian Resources shows that America's biggest Protestant and second-biggest Christian denomination lost 457,371 members to end the year with some 13.2 million members.The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), an umbrella group dominated by white and one of America's most influential religious groups, has shed about 3 percent of its flock annually since the mid 2000s.
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