BRIGHTON, England (ABP) — Baptists in Great Britain are calling on their government and churches to do more for migrant workers and to oppose human trafficking around the world. The resolution came at the May 4-7 Baptist Assembly in Brighton,…
Missionaries return to Tanzania after surviving brutal attack there
MOSHI, Tanzania (ABP) — Two Southern Baptist missionaries are on their way back to Tanzania, where they were attacked with machetes and shot during a vicious robbery in the East African country. Carl and Kay Garvin, Southern Baptist missionaries who…
Opinion: Why some evangelicals decide to forego creation care
Evangelicals are waking up to our responsibility to the environment. Evangelical initiatives on the environment are growing in cultural impact, but they continue to garner stout resistance within the most conservative sector of our own community. Too often, politics and…
Fugitive secretary apprehended in Ga., charged with embezzling church funds
CHARLESTON, S.C. (ABP) — A former administrative assistant at a South Carolina Baptist Convention church is back in Charleston to face allegations that she embezzled more than $30,000 from the church's bank accounts. Kristin Barnes Warren is accused of forging…
Correction
In the May 4 story “Baylor student, daughter of provost of Samford, killed in car accident,” please change the first graph to say: “Caitlin Creed, 19-year-old daughter of the provost of Samford University, died in a car crash April 30…
Baylor prof Beckwith becomes Catholic, resigns as head of evangelical society
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Renowned evangelical philosopher Francis Beckwith has become a Roman Catholic and, as a result, has resigned as president — and also as a member — of the Evangelical Theological Society. Beckwith, associate professor of church-state studies…
Baylor student, daughter of provost of Samford, killed in car accident
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Caitlin Creed, 19-year-old daughter of the provost of Samford University, died in a car crash April 30 on her way to visit her grandparents in Tyler, Texas. Creed, a freshman student at Baylor University in Waco,…
Oregon, New Hampshire latest states set to recognize gay relationships
SALEM, Ore. (ABP) — Legislators in Oregon and New Hampshire have set up their states to become the latest offering marriage-like legal protections for same-sex couples. The Oregon Senate voted overwhelmingly May 2 to approve a bill creating domestic partnerships…
In reauthorizing Head Start, House rejects religious discrimination
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The House of Representatives has turned back a last-ditch effort by Republicans to allow religious groups receiving Head Start funds to discriminate in hiring on the basis of faith. On a mostly party-line vote of 222-195, the…
House adds gender, sexuality, disability to hate-crimes law, but veto looms
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Despite a veto threat from President Bush, a large majority of the House of Representatives voted May 3 to add gender, sexual orientation and disability to the categories protected under federal hate-crimes laws. On a 237-180 vote,…
List of evangelical kingmakers may signal shift in politics, opinions
NEW YORK (ABP) — As the battle for the Republican presidential nomination takes shape, it is revealing a “seismic shift” in the way evangelicals shape their opinions, political observers say. A recent story by the Religion News Service, in an…
Immigration ethics: Any reform better than nothing, some say
WASHINGTON (ABP) — As Congress debates immigration-reform proposals, some Christian immigration activists say there is no perfect legislation in the pipeline, but time is of the essence in getting something — anything — passed. A reform bill with broad bipartisan…