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  Deborah Loftis takes over as executive director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in November. RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — A Baptist woman has been tapped to head an organization of church leaders and artists dedicated…

DALLAS (ABP) — Buckner International temporarily is suspending travel by mission groups to Honduras in the wake of a coup that removed President Manuel Zelaya from office. Officials with the Dallas-based orphan care ministry announced June 29 they are halting…

DETROIT (ABP) — Despite President Obama's election, African Americans still have a long way to go before achieving racial equality, NAACP head Benjamin Jealous told a group of black Baptists meeting in Detroit. "We're not the National Association for the…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The first woman president of a consortium of Baptist seminaries in Asia died June 25 in Singapore. Lilian Lim, 50, was born with Marfan's syndrome, a connective-tissue disorder that weakens major arteries. Eron Henry, a spokesman for…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The first woman president of a consortium of Baptist seminaries in Asia died June 25 in Singapore. Lilian Lim, a Chinese woman born and based in Singapore, made history in 2005 when she was elected president of…

Veiled Muslim woman (PHOTO/Steve Evan/Wikimedia Commons) (ABP) — For many Baptists in the United States, the separation of church and state is no more than a historical concept or fodder for the culture wars. For Baptist minority groups in other…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — The 2009 Southern Baptist Convention marked the 30th anniversary of the launch of a theological/political movement aimed at stopping the nation's second-largest faith group from drifting into liberalism and inevitable decline. Three decades later, Southern Baptists…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — The 2009 Southern Baptist Convention marked the 30th anniversary of the launch of a theological/political movement aimed at stopping the nation's second-largest faith group from drifting into liberalism and inevitable decline. Three decades later, Southern Baptists…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — The 2009 Southern Baptist Convention marked the 30th anniversary of the launch of a theological/political movement aimed at stopping the nation's second-largest faith group from drifting into liberalism and inevitable decline. This Creation Museum skeleton of…

BLUE ASH, Ohio (ABP) — Nearly 73 million pounds of commercial products that would have been discarded in the United States have escaped the landfill. They've been shipped, instead, to some of the world's neediest to help them become more…