Overseas Mormon missionaries won’t count. Mormon missionaries serving abroad will not be counted in the 2010 U.S. census, despite the hopes of Utah congressmen that the missionaries would be included, the Census Bureau said. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, has led…
Healing the sick
President Clinton’s health care reform bill went down to defeat in 1993, due in large part to the opposition of the Religious Right, and the political fallout helped usher in a Republican takeover of Congress and nearly crippled the rest…
Baptists offer ministry in memory of 9/11
RICHMOND — Seven members of First Baptist Church in Danville were installing shelving in the laundry room at the House of Hope homeless shelter on Saturday, Sept. 12. In Norfolk a team from Freemason Street Baptist Church were rebuilding the…
Bluefield’s enrollment up
BLUEFIELD — Bluefield College began the fall 2009 semester with a 22 percent increase in new student enrollment and the highest new traditional student figures since the fall of 2006. Traditional new student numbers at BC — including new freshmen,…
Healing the Sick: Religious groups fighting to prevent reform debacle
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The last time a president attempted comprehensive reform of America’s health-insurance system, it went over like the proverbial lead balloon — and conservative religious groups were prominent in the coalition that helped sink the plan. President Clinton’s…
Nilson Fanini, former Baptist World Alliance president, dies at 77
BEDFORD, Texas — Nilson Fanini, Brazilian pastor and evangelist who served as president of the Baptist World Alliance from 1995 to 2000, died Sept. 19. He was 77. During his term as BWA president, Fanini viewed the BWA’s primary role…
Healing the Sick: Faith-based providers crucial to health reform
Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. DALLAS (ABP) — Faith-based health-care providers can lead the way in developing new models that emphasize wellness and prevention — and create accountable care organizations focused on the needs of patients and their families,…
From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap
STAFF CHANGES • Pamela I. Chisholm, to Greenbrier Church, Arlington, as pastor. • Brian J. Hotaling, to Charles Town Church, Charles Town, W. Va., as pastor. • Gregory Washington, to St. Mark Church, Maidens, as pastor. MISSION IN EL SALVADOR:…
Healing the Sick: Baylor profs propose alternative reform model
WACO, Texas (ABP) — The United States does not have a health-care problem as much as it has an insurance problem and an income problem, two economists at Baylor University have asserted. And they insist those problems can be solved…
Former BWA president Nilson Fanini dies
BEDFORD, Texas (ABP) — Nilson Fanini, a Brazilian Baptist pastor who led the Baptist World Alliance from 1990 to 1995, died Sept. 19 after a brief illness. Fanini, 77, was hospitalized Sept. 13 with pneumonia while visiting a new granddaughter…
Church-state groups press Holder to withdraw Bush-era hiring memo
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Supporters of the separation of church and state are urging Attorney General Eric Holder to fulfill a campaign promise by President Obama to combat religious discrimination in hiring. The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and the…
Florida principal, athletic director not guilty of contempt of court
PENSACOLA, Fla. (ABP) — A federal judge in Florida ruled Sept. 17 that a blessing at an athletic banquet did not violate her court order telling a school district's leaders to refrain from promoting religious activity at school events. Following…