LITTLE ROCK (ABP) — The pastor of one of Arkansas' most prominent churches has been named president of the state's flagship Baptist college. Following a special called meeting in Little Rock April 6, trustees of Ouachita Baptist University announced that…
Evangelical leaders write Bush to boost immigration reform
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A group of evangelical leaders has written President Bush and Congress in support of an immigration bill that supports guest worker programs and citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Albert Reyes, president of Baptist University of the Americas and…
BGCT leader speaks out to support national immigration reform
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Albert Reyes, president of the Baptist University of the Americas Texas and immediate past president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, believes the current immigration reform debate should be informed for Christians primarily by one question:…
Day after apparent compromise, immigration reform takes hit
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Just one day after a purported “breakthrough” on immigration reform in the Senate, a partisan dispute erupted in the Senate April 7, effectively setting back a compromise bill for weeks. Legislation hailed as a consensus bill and…
FIRST PERSON: William & Mary student learns lesson while repairing Gulf Coast homes
Everyone has heard the story by Loren Eiseley about the man walking along the beach at sunset who sees a boy in the distance bending down, picking something up, and throwing it into the ocean. As he gets closer he…
CORRECTION
The chair of the Baptist General Association of Virginia's Christian life committee is David Roberts, not Bill Nieporte as reported in last week's Herald.
Tennessee Baptist churches rally to help tornado victims
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (ABP) — Tennessee Baptists are rallying to respond to victims of a series of severe storms that tore through west Tennessee April 2 and 3. As of April 5, police had confirmed the storms killed 28 people in…
Alabama churches face options as they rebuild after fires
BRIERFIELD, Ala. (ABP) — The clearing where Ashby Baptist Church once sat tucked in the woods is now clearer than it's been in nearly a century. With the ashes and debris from its sanctuary cleaned up, the site a quarter…
Done with arson case, Alabama ATF agent leads hunt for beeping eggs
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — David Hyche has spent the last two months helping people hunt things. Hyche, the agent in charge of supervising the church fire investigations for the Birmingham Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives division, has led his team…
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Afghan president Karzai praises treatment of exiled Christian
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Afghanistan's president praised his government April 4 for releasing a Christian who had been threatened with death for abandoning Islam. Hamid Karzai said the nation's judiciary was right not to bow to pressure from Muslim clerics and…
Paul Corts named 5th president of Christian college council
DALLAS (ABP) — Former Baptist college president Paul Corts has been named the fifth president of the 30-year-old Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. The selection of Corts, who has served as assistant attorney general for administration for the U.S….