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DES MOINES, Iowa (ABP) — Iowa will soon join the ranks of states that allow same-sex marriage, thanks to a unanimous April 3 ruling by the state’s highest court. The Iowa Supreme Court said a law limiting marriage to heterosexual…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A church-state watchdog group says the Kentucky Supreme Court should strike down a $10 million state appropriation to build a pharmacy school at Baptist-owned University of the Cumberlands, claiming it uses taxpayer funds to advance a particular…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A church-state watchdog group says the Kentucky Supreme Court should strike down a $10 million state appropriation to build a pharmacy school at Baptist-owned University of the Cumberlands, claiming it uses taxpayer funds to advance a particular…

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — A Baptist minority in the South Caucasus country of Azerbaijan continues to face run-ins with police. In the latest, reported by the Baptist World Alliance April 2, officials charged three Baptists with “illegally spreading Christianity…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — A former pastor of Baptist churches in Texas was indicted March 25 on a charge that he murdered his wife three years ago. A McLennan County grand jury alleged that Matt Dee Baker, 37, "intentionally or…

(Editor's Note: This story was revised Sunday, April 5, to correct and clarify an earlier version published April 3.) Matt Baker was booked under arrest March 26. WACO, Texas (ABP) — A former pastor of Baptist churches in Texas was…