ATLANTA (ABP) — The presidents of five historically African-American Baptist denominations have presented a check for $500,000 to Habitat for Humanity International to help rebuild homes destroyed in Haiti by January's earthquake. From left, Robert Murray, Lott Carey Foreign Mission…
Global Baptists ministering at World Cup soccer tourney
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (ABP) — For most of the globe outside the United States, it’s like the Super Bowl plus the NCAA Basketball Tournament plus the World Series plus the Olympics, all in one event. And Baptists in South Africa…
Baptist preacher gets 12 years for distributing child porn
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ABP) — A former Baptist pastor and volunteer police chaplain has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for distributing child pornography. Bernard Squires Bernard Squires, 65, of rural Columbia City, Ind., pleaded guilty March…
Baptist youth group survives crash on mission trip in Kentucky
SILER, Ky. (ABP) — A youth mission trip from a Southern Baptist church in Georgia took a terrifying turn June 9 when a van carrying 13 passengers crashed head-on into a semi-trailer coal truck on a rain-slicked highway in eastern…
CBF, Haitian Baptists sign three-year agreement for earthquake recovery
ATLANTA (ABP) — As part of its ongoing earthquake response efforts in Haiti, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has signed a memorandum of understanding — representing an official partnership — with the Convention Baptiste d’Haiti. Emmanuel Pierre, general secretary of the…
Connecticut school board to appeal graduation ruling after all
ENFIELD, Conn. (ABP) — A Connecticut school board voted June 8 to appeal a federal judge's ruling that holding high-school graduation ceremonies at a local church is unconstitutional, reversing a vote a week earlier to lay the matter to rest….
SBC exec Chapman criticizes task force’s recommendations
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A top official in the Southern Baptist Convention has used the denomination's news service to urge defeat of recommendations from a panel on denominational effectiveness scheduled to be presented to messengers at the convention's upcoming annual…
Missouri church shares Christ via Castrol with oil-change ministry
Seth Rewerts (left), Kevin Rewerts and Patrick Hamilton take a look under the hood before changing a car's oil and filter and checking its tires. The three men were among 25 volunteers who assisted with the latest oil-change-ministry event offered…
Medical-experimentation allegations spur new calls for torture inquest
WASHINGTON (ABP) — New allegations that physicians working for the United States government engaged in medical experimentation on terrorism suspects have led a group of religious leaders to, once again, demand that President Obama convene a high-profile panel to investigate…