Progressive National Baptist Convention | |
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Abbreviation | PNBC |
Classification | Mainline Protestant |
Orientation | Progressive, Baptist |
Polity | Congregationalist |
President | David Peoples |
Associations | National Council of Churches Baptist World Alliance |
Founder | L. Venchael Booth |
Origin | 1961 Cincinnati, Ohio |
Separated from | National Baptist Convention |
Congregations | 1,362 (Self-reported, including international churches; 2022) 363 (ARDA; 2020) |
Members | 1,500,000 (Self-reported, including international members; 2022) 254,571 (ARDA; 2020) |
Missionary organization | PNBC Missions |
Official website | www |
The Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC), incorporated as the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc., is a Baptist denomination emphasizing civil rights and social justice.[1] The headquarters of the Progressive National Baptist Convention are in Washington, D.C.[2] Part of the Black church tradition, since its organization, the denomination has member churches outside the United States, particularly in the Caribbean and Europe. It is a member of the National Council of Churches and the Baptist World Alliance.[3][4]
PNBC was formed to give full voice, sterling leadership and active support to the American and world fight for human freedom. The convention was the convention -denominational home and platform for the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who addressed every annual session of the Convention until his death in 1968. New generations of Progressive Baptists are continuing the struggle for full voter registration, education and participation in society, economic empowerment and development, and the realization of universal human rights and total human liberation for all people.