DALLAS (ABP) — Blessed are they who hit the “delete” key instead of “forward” when it comes to mean-spirited e-mails of questionable veracity, several Christian ethicists suggested. Christians have a responsibility to tell the truth and to tell it in…
SBC leader apologizes for Nazi analogy regarding Obama plan
NEW YORK (ABP) — The head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has apologized for comparing Democratic health-care proposals to policies of Nazi Germany. ERLC President Richard Land reportedly told a Christian Coalition of Florida banquet…
Russian Baptists schedule historic rally with Orthodox, Catholics
MOSCOW (ABP) — An Oct. 15 meeting between high-level representatives of Russia’s Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox communities resulted in the scheduling of a historic multi-confessional Christian rally for early next year, according to a Russian Baptist press release. The rally,…
SBC leader apologizes for Nazi analogy regarding Obama plan
NEW YORK (ABP) — The head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has apologized for comparing Democratic health-care proposals to policies of Nazi Germany. ERLC President Richard Land reportedly told a Christian Coalition of Florida banquet…
Jailed Cuban Baptists accused of illegal economic activity
MIAMI (ABP) — Cuban authorities say two Baptist leaders held in jail for 11 days in a city on the eastern end of the island are suspected of illegal economic activities. Associated Baptist Press first reported Oct. 13 that Rubén…
Louisiana CBF names scholarship after Maggie Lee Henson
BATON ROUGE, La. (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Louisiana has named a scholarship fund for women in ministry after a member of a Shreveport youth group who died this summer following a church-bus accident. The Louisiana CBF launched…
‘Maggie Lee for Good’ day surpasses goal of 13,000 good deeds
SHREVEPORT, La. (ABP) — An Internet-fueled show of support for a 12-year-old girl killed this summer in a church-bus accident is reaching as far away as Africa, bringing clean water to impoverished children in Malawi. More than 13,000 people…
Texas Baptist Men offer relief and hope after Philippine flooding
Mounds of debris clogged Manila's streets after Typhoon Ketsana. (PHOTO/Rand Jenkins) MANILA, Philippines (ABP) — When two typhoons inundated the Philippines recently, 10 Texas Baptist men volunteers packed their rubber boots, leather gloves and bright-yellow shirts and journeyed to the…
Jailed Cuban Baptists accused of illegal economic activity
MIAMI (ABP) — Cuban authorities say two Baptist leaders held in jail for 11 days in a city on the eastern end of the island are suspected of illegal economic activities. Associated Baptist Press first reported Oct. 13 that Rubén…
D.C. convention’s Haggray elected pastor of historic Washington church
Haggray WASHINGTON (ABP) — Jeffrey Haggray is stepping down after eight years as executive director of the District of Columbia Baptist Convention to become pastor of the historic First Baptist Church of Washington. Elected Oct. 11, Haggray, 46, will…
Georgia school board upholds policy banning Bible banners
RINGGOLD, Ga. (ABP) — A school board in far northern Georgia upheld a policy Oct. 13 banning cheerleaders from displaying religious banners on the field at high-school football games. Supporters of the signs, banned Sept. 28 by a superintendent who…
D.C. convention’s Haggray elected pastor of FBC in Washington
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Jeffrey Haggray is stepping down after eight years as executive director of the District of Columbia Baptist Convention to become pastor of the historic First Baptist Church of Washington. Jeffrey Haggery, leader of the District of Columbia…