ISTANBUL (ABP) — Despite the fears of the nation's secular elite, Turkish voters kept a moderate Islamist party in power after parliamentary elections July 22. The Justice and Development Party, known by its Turkish initials as AKP, received about 47…
African American pastor blazes trail at Northern Virginia church
NEW BALTIMORE—Broad Run Baptist Church, whose members since the Civil War have been almost exclusively white, installed African-American Larry White as pastor on June 24. Broad Run, the oldest continuously active Baptist church in Virginia, was organized on Dec. 3,…
Missions education resource inspires church’s art show
BALTIMORE — Photographs documenting an immigrant's journey, masquerade masks and paintings stretching the edge of imagination—all are part of supporting the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's HIV/AIDS ministry in Africa and reaching out to a transitioning Baltimore community. Hosted by University Baptist…
Christian hostages in Afghanistan wait as Korean official tries to win release
KABUL, Afghanistan (ABP) — A senior official from South Korea traveled to Afghanistan July 26 to try to save 22 Korean Christians taken hostage by Taliban fighters. The kidnappers killed the group's leader, 42-year-old Bae Hyung-kyu, July 25. The group,…
Bottled water craze may find way into late Jerry Falwell’s legacy
LYNCHBURG—Move over, Perrier. The next designer bottled water may come out of Lynchburg, courtesy of the late Jerry Falwell. Liberty University, the school founded by the fundamentalist Baptist evangelist who died May 15, has announced that it will bottle water…
Baptist morality activist arrested on sex-for-hire charges in N.C.
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — Coy Privette, the president of a Christian morality group and a former state legislator and Southern Baptist Convention leader, has been arrested on prostitution-related charges in North Carolina. Privette, the president of the Christian Action League…
VIRGINIA BRIEFS
BTSR reorganizes development office. Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond has reorganized its development office to include include fund development, congregational relations, communications and alumni relations, new president Ron Crawford announced July 3. In addition, new staff members have been named…
MID-ATLANTIC BRIEFS
WFU dean receives Baptist Award. Bill J. Leonard, dean and professor of church history at the divinity school of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., has received the 2007 W. O. Carver Distinguished Service Award from the Baptist History and…
EDITORIAL: Aunt Ida confronts the INS
Dear Jimmy, Your poor uncle is as confused as a termite in a yo yo. We thought we were helping a young couple and at the same time gettin' some needed work done around the place, but now it seems…
California Baptists create competing state convention to support SBC
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (ABP)—Southern Baptists in California have started a new alternative state convention that will compete with the 67-year-old California Southern Baptist Convention for denominational loyalty. California is the fourth state to witness such a move, joining Texas, Missouri…
SECOND OPINION: What would Marlo do?
Marlo Rodriguez is a 24-year-old illegal immigrant in Virginia—euphemistically called “undocumented” by the press and other politically correct operatives. He came to Northern Virginia 16 years ago, when he was only 8. His parents, together with two younger siblings—who at…
BAPTIST BRIEFS
Vandals burn Israeli flag at Baptist church. A Baptist church that since last summer had flown the Israeli flag to show support for Israel fell victim to criminal activity July 17 when the star in the center of the flag…