SYDNEY (ABP) – Australian Baptist leaders have called on their government to make it easier for asylum seekers fleeing religious, ethnic or political persecution to gain protection as refugees. A policy on immigration and asylum seekers adopted by the Australian…
Baptist schools in Kansas, Myanmar collaborate for D.Min.
SHAWNEE, Kan. (ABP) – A dozen students and three faculty members from the Myanmar Institute of Theology spent two weeks in October on the campus of Central Baptist Theological Seminary for a new doctor of ministry degree collaboration between Baptist…
CBS News to focus on Burmese refugees at Kentucky church
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) – Media attention to this week’s groundbreaking visit to Myanmar by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will include a network news story featuring a Kentucky Baptist church that has become a spiritual home for resettled refugees in…
Founding ABP board member Ardelle Clemons dies
Ardelle Clemons SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ABP) — Ardelle Clemons, a founding board member of Associated Baptist Press, died Nov. 26 after a long illness. She was 93. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, she…
Report: Michele Bachmann no longer attending Baptist church
LAKE ELMO, Minn. (ABP) – Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, who earlier this year withdrew her membership from a Lutheran church that received media attention for anti-Catholic teachings, now is reportedly a former Baptist. A New York Times article in July…
Passport devotional series for Advent and Christmas now online
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — “Following the Star,” an Advent and Christmas devotional series, returned to Passport Inc.’s devotional website d365.org on Sunday, Nov. 27. It continues through Epiphany on Jan. 6. This series features Scripture, prayer and meditative thoughts, accompanied…
Passport’s “Following the Star†devotional series returns
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — “Following the Star,” an Advent and Christmas devotional series, will return to Passport Inc.’s devotional website d365.org on Sunday, Nov. 27, through Epiphany on Jan. 6. This series features Scripture, prayer and meditative thoughts, accompanied by gentle…
Religious groups spend nearly $400 million on advocacy in Washington
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The number of religious advocacy groups in the nation’s capital has more than tripled since the 1970s, with conservative groups seeing the biggest growth, according to a new report. Together, faith-based lobbying and advocacy groups spend $390…
Religious lobbyists spend $400 million a year in D.C.
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The number of religious advocacy groups in the nation’s capital has more than tripled since the 1970s, with conservative groups seeing the biggest growth, according to a new report. Together, faith-based lobbying and advocacy groups spend $390…
Divinity students aim to heal ‘unseen war wounds’
DURHAM, N.C. (ABP) — Combat veterans, pacifists, pastors and military leaders gathered at a Duke Divinity School event Nov. 11-12 to discuss how the church, the military and academia can understand and begin to heal the unseen wounds of war….
Wounded Warriors: Returning veterans, families struggle to adjust
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Sitting around the kitchen table, the Riverses are a picture of the quintessential American family. Over a freshly prepared meal, they share stories of the day’s events. The room is filled with the warmth of smiles,…
Congregations reach out to vets with PTSD, traumatic brain injury
NEWTON, Mass. (RNS) — Some wounds of war are all too visible — a missing leg, a shattered arm. The invisible wounds of mind and soul often are more difficult to spot and equally hard to treat. But those who…