A Washington, D.C.-based Baptist church once affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention has decided to sever its ties over differences regarding ordination and political matters.
The leadership of Calvary Baptist Church, a 150-year-old congregation formed by abolitionists who broke away from a pro-slavery church, voted unanimously on Wednesday to disaffiliate itself from the SBC.

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