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PLANO, Texas (ABP) – A Southern Baptist mega-church held up as an example for taking a hard line three years ago against a staff member arrested for soliciting sex from a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl now stands…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (ABP) – Ross Coggins, a missionary and denominational worker before switching careers to U.S. foreign aid, died Aug. 1 at his home in Annapolis, Md., after an illness. Ross Coggins Coggins, 83, was a graduate of Baylor University…

RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) – A lesbian Baptist pastor told her congregation July 24 that she doesn’t want to perform any more weddings until her state legalizes gay marriage. Nancy Petty Nancy Petty, pastor of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh,…

PHILADELPHIA (ABP) – A federal appeals court ruled Aug. 5 that a Delaware school board’s practice of opening meetings with prayer is unconstitutional. Reversing a lower-court judgment, the United States 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Indian River School…