WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Obama announced a revamped version of his predecessor’s office on faith-based charities Feb. 5, restructuring it with a broad advisory council and vowing to pay close attention to church-state concerns. “The goal of this office will…
Parents to be reunited with children kidnapped while they were at seminary after 20 years
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (ABP) — A decades-old kidnapping case came to an end Feb. 2 with the arrest of a 72-year-old man accused of abducting two grandchildren left in his care while his daughter and son-in-law headed off for seminary in…
Parents to be reunited with kids kidnapped in seminary days
This is what the Baskin children looked like in 1989, when they disappeared. MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (ABP) — A decades-old kidnapping case came to an end Feb. 2 with the arrest of a 72-year-old man accused of abducting two grandchildren left…
Human trafficking is all too real, filmmaker discovers
AUSTIN—A few years ago, Justin Dillon read an article in the New York Times Sunday magazine that detailed the story of young Indian girls who were searching for a better life in the United States but ended up in prostitution….
Human trafficking is all too real, filmmaker discovers
AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — A few years ago, Justin Dillon read an article in the New York Times Magazine that detailed the story of young Indian girls who were searching for a better life in the United States but ended…
Environmental damage hurts children and elderly most
Susan Pacheco of the University of Texas Medical School in Houston describes the impact environmental degradation has on the most vulnerable people in the general population—particularly children and the elderly. (PHOTO/BGCT/Ferrell Foster)AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — Environmental degradation presents the greatest…
Predatory gambling preys on weakness for profit, activist insists
David Blankenhorn, founding president of the Institute for American Values in New York, contrasts the “culture of debt” and the “culture of thrift” during his presentation at the BGCT Christian Life Conference in Austin. (PHOTO/Ferrell Foster/BGCT)AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — Public…
SCHIP passage to add 4 million children to insurance rolls
WASHINGTON (ABP) — On his 16th day in office, President Barack Obama signed a bill expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) by $32 billion, providing coverage to an additional 4 million children in families with incomes too high…
SCHIP passage to add 4 million children to insurance rolls
WASHINGTON (ABP) — On his 16th day in office, President Barack Obama signed a bill expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program by $32 billion, providing coverage to an additional 4 million children in families with incomes too high to…
Former Samford president Tom Corts dies
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Former Samford University President Thomas Corts died unexpectedly Feb. 4 of an apparent heart attack. Corts, 67, died after being taken by ambulance to Brookwood Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala., accompanied by his wife of 44 years,…
Former Samford president Tom Corts dies
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Former Samford University President Tom Corts died unexpectedly Feb. 4 of an apparent heart attack. Corts, 67, died after being taken by ambulance to Brookwood Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala., accompanied by his wife of 44 years,…
David Tolliver named Missouri executive director
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — David Tolliver, who served as interim executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention for the past 22 months, has been has been named the new executive director. The MBC Executive Board voted overwhelmingly to call…