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Faithful cite religious liberty in challenges to Muslim travel ban
A Baptist church/state specialist is among a group of constitutional scholars asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down President Donald Trump’s third attempt to restrict travel from certain Muslim majority nations the administration claims pose a terrorist risk. Holly…
Belmont University student dies in Waffle House shooting
Historically Baptist Belmont University devoted its Monday morning chapel service to prayers for a student whose life was cut short by a mass shooting. DeEbony Groves, 21, was one of four victims killed by a gunman in a Sunday morning…
Emotional rebuilding continues 5 years after Texas blast
The town of West, Texas, took one on the chin when an April 2013 fertilizer plant explosion flattened or damaged scores of homes, destroyed schools, killed 15 people and injured hundreds of others. But the community located about 20 miles north…
Former Miss America weds same-sex partner
Former Miss America Deidre Downs Gunn, a graduate of Baptist-affiliated Samford University, married her girlfriend in a ceremony in Birmingham, Ala., an event covered exclusively by People magazine.
Pastor/judge repeats controversial death penalty protest
An Arkansas judge and pastor of a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church participated in an anti-death penalty demonstration this week, re-enacting symbolic speech that a year ago led to his being barred from hearing capital punishment cases.
Transitions for the week of 04.20.18
Staff changes, congregational news and more from across the nation.
25 years later, religious leaders reflect on how they might have helped prevent Branch Davidian tragedy
Twenty-five years ago today the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas burned to the ground with cult leader David Koresh and 75 of his followers inside. Religious leaders who watched the tragedy play out close up reflect on what, if anything, could have prevented it.
Baptist pastors among 8,500 released from prison in Myanmar
Two Baptist pastors from Myanmar arrested for leading journalists to a church reportedly destroyed by military air strikes in 2016 reportedly have been released from prison.
CBF leaders protest annual gathering of payday lenders
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship representatives joined other faith leaders April 17 protesting the annual conference of the trade association representing the payday lending industry this week at the Trump National Resort in Doral in Miami.
Third Pressler accuser comes forward
An attorney in Washington state says he resigned a position working for the longtime law partner of former Judge Paul Pressler after the co-founder of a 20th-century movement to shift the Southern Baptist Convention to the right solicited him for sexual activity.