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In the Jan. 15 ABP story “Huckabee's role in SBC conflict presaged political balancing act,” please replace the 17th paragraph with the following: More recently Huckabee pleased SBC conservatives by withdrawing as a keynote speaker for the Celebration of a…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's support among evangelicals failed to garner a win for him in the Jan. 19 GOP primary in South Carolina. The Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor lost that race — the primary…

DALLAS (ABP) — For some Christians, listening to the news is like hearing a prayer list. More than 2 million people displaced in Sudan. More than 1.5 million Iraqi children left homeless. Residents of Louisiana still rebuilding two years after…

DALLAS (ABP) — Care for people Jesus called “the least of these” requires response from both congregations and government, according to specialists who focus on ministry to the poor and on church-state relations. As participants in both church and state,…

DALLAS (ABP) — In a growing number of Baptist churches, new arrivals learn an important lesson early: Membership has its privileges, but it also has its responsibilities. “We want to create a culture of discipleship here,” said John Wilson, minister…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Exit polls of Republican voters in the Jan. 15 Michigan primary showed that, unlike in the previous Iowa and New Hampshire contests, evangelical Republicans preferred Mitt Romney to Mike Huckabee. A groundswell of support among self-described evangelical…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Churchgoing Congregationalist Barack Obama is being forced once again to explain that he is not secretly a Muslim bent on furthering an international Islamic conspiracy by winning the presidency. Jewish and other religious leaders have joined him…