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ATLANTA (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has hired its third "field coordinator," a shared staff position designed to promote cooperation and communication between state and national CBF organizations. The Atlanta-based CBF and Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship jointly employed Terry…

AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) — A Texas board that sets curriculum standards for the nation’s second-largest textbook market has voted, along party lines, to leave a  conservative imprint on history, social studies and economics courses. And the effects won't be felt in…

Editor's note: This story was updated March 17 to clarify information in the third paragraph.  ATLANTA (ABP) — Bruce Gourley, a historian and online editor of Baptists Today, has been named executive director of the Baptist History and Heritage Society,…

MONROE, Mich. (ABP) — The head of a task force appointed last summer to recommend ways to make the Southern Baptist Convention more effective in reaching the lost said March 16 he was surprised by negative reaction to parts of…

MONROE, Mich. (ABP) — The head of a task force appointed last summer to recommend ways to make the Southern Baptist Convention more effective in reaching the lost said March 16 he was surprised by negative reaction to parts of…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) — The last of 10 Americans held in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping now faces a new charge stemming from an earlier alleged attempt to bus child earthquake victims to the Dominican Republic three days before the…

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) — American Baptist Churches USA organizations have given more than $1.2 million for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti, the American Baptist News Service reported March 12. Two months after the Jan. 12 earthquake that jolted the…

OSLO, Norway (ABP) — Thirteen members of an unregistered Baptist church in Uzbekistan have been fined 100 times the nation's minimum monthly salary, an international news service that tracks stories about abuses of religious freedom reported March 15. The Norway-based…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — One Southern Baptist leader said Glenn Beck's advice to leave churches that preach "social justice" was stated poorly but basically on target, while another said the statement was so broad that it would include asking people…