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FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — Andy Lester, a professor of pastoral care and counseling popular with a generation of Baptists who attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the 1970s and 1980s, died June 10 after a year-long battle with pancreatic…

ATLANTA (ABP) — The presidents of five historically African-American Baptist denominations have presented a check for $500,000 to Habitat for Humanity International to help rebuild homes destroyed in Haiti by January's earthquake. The contribution, the largest single donation given by…

ATLANTA (ABP) — The presidents of five historically African-American Baptist denominations have presented a check for $500,000 to Habitat for Humanity International to help rebuild homes destroyed in Haiti by January's earthquake. From left, Robert Murray, Lott Carey Foreign Mission…

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (ABP) — For most of the globe outside the United States, it’s like the Super Bowl plus the NCAA Basketball Tournament plus the World Series plus the Olympics, all in one event. And Baptists in South Africa…

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ABP) — A former Baptist pastor and volunteer police chaplain has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for distributing child pornography. Bernard Squires Bernard Squires, 65, of rural Columbia City, Ind., pleaded guilty March…

SILER, Ky. (ABP) — A youth mission trip from a Southern Baptist church in Georgia took a terrifying turn June 9 when a van carrying 13 passengers crashed head-on into a semi-trailer coal truck on a rain-slicked highway in eastern…

ATLANTA (ABP) — As part of its ongoing earthquake response efforts in Haiti, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has signed a memorandum of understanding — representing an official partnership — with the Convention Baptiste d’Haiti. Emmanuel Pierre, general secretary of the…

ENFIELD, Conn. (ABP) — A Connecticut school board voted June 8 to appeal a federal judge's ruling that holding high-school graduation ceremonies at a local church is unconstitutional, reversing a vote a week earlier to lay the matter to rest….