Children are hungry tonight because of Lindsey Graham

PHILADELPHIA (ABP) — Teenage birth rates tend to be higher in states that are more religiously conservative, possibly because communities in those places discourage contraception, according to a national study. An article in the open-access journal Reproductive Health reported a…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Baptist congregations will increasingly take on more direct responsibility for international missions, freeing full-time missionaries to focus their energies in countries that restrict Christian evangelism, says the retiring executive of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission…

DIDCOT, England (ABP) — More than a half-century after the last missionaries left the country, a delegation of British Baptists is visiting China to explore re-establishing work in the world's most populous nation. A team representing BMS World Mission and…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Jerry Rankin, 67, has announced that he will retire next year after 17 years as president of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Rankin announced his plans to step down — at the…

HARTFORD, Conn. (ABP) — A congregation's health depends less on theology than methodology, according to a first look at an upcoming national study by Hartford Seminary's Institute for Religion Research. Faith Communities Today 2008, due out Oct. 15, paints an…

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (ABP) — The head of Uzbekistan's Baptist union and two colleagues face up to three years in prison on charges of tax evasion and teaching children about religion without permission from their parents — a crime in the…