TEMPLE, Texas (ABP) — First Baptist Church in Temple, Texas, has suspended operation of its 40-year-old Child Development Center indefinitely due to smoke and water damage from a Jan. 19 fire that authorities ruled arson. The decision, announced to church…
SBC official says he believes detained missionaries acted in good faith
CORRECTION: This story was updated at 7:30 p.m. CST Feb. 4 to correct an error in the 10th paragraph. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A top official of the Southern Baptist Convention said Feb. 3 he is confident that a church…
Study finds abstinence-only programs effective in delaying sex
PHILADELPHIA (ABP) — A new study by University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine says that abstinence-only sex-education programs are effective in getting some pre-teens to delay having sex. The study, which appeared in the Feb. 1 edition of Archives of…
Baptist volunteers ready to serve amid massive needs in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) — Servando Silva and Matt Johnson were packed for Haiti before there was a trip to pack for. The Mission, Texas-based nurse and doctor had prayed for an opportunity to help meet medical needs in the wake…
Baptist volunteers ready to serve amid massive needs in Haiti
A child stands in one of hundreds of makeshift tent cities that have sprung up in Port-au-Prince since the Jan. 12 earthquake. (BGCT photo) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) — Servando Silva and Matt Johnson were packed for Haiti before there was…
Drake’s lawyer claims legal precedent for courts to remove a head of state
RAMONA, Calif. (ABP) — The lawyer representing a former Southern Baptist Convention official challenging the legitimacy of Barack Obama's presidency says there is legal precedent for courts to remove a sitting chief executive if the individual is found ineligible to…
Baptists continue to meet needs in Haiti despite major obstacles
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) — Nearly three weeks after an earthquake left an estimated 200,000 people dead, life in Haiti remains in as many pieces as the buildings toppled throughout Port-au-Prince. Carroll Prewitt (center) of Texas Baptist Men and James Cundiff…
Billy Graham tops poll of most influential living preachers
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Protestant pastors ranked Billy Graham by far the most influential living preacher in survey results released Feb. 2 by LifeWay Research. Asked to name three living Christian preachers that most influence them, 21 percent of pastors…
Billy Graham tops poll of most influential living preachers
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Protestant pastors ranked Billy Graham by far the most influential living preacher in survey results released Feb. 2 by LifeWay Research. Protestant pastors polled by LifeWay Research named Billy Graham as the living preacher who has…
Baptist prof fears Haiti arrests will set back adoption movement
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A Southern Baptist seminary professor says the arrests of a group of Baptists from the United States accused of trying to remove children from earthquake-stricken Haiti without proper documentation could give a black eye to a…
Study shows significant increase in American families going hungry
DALLAS (ABP) — Food-assistance agencies nationwide serve 1 million more people each week than they did four years ago, according to a national study released Feb. 2. The nation’s network of food banks and related agencies provide emergency food to…
Baptist prof fears Haiti arrests will set back adoption movement
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A Southern Baptist seminary professor says the arrests of a group of U.S. Baptists accused of trying to remove children from earthquake-stricken Haiti without proper documentation could give a black eye to a budding movement of…