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LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — Rick Warren, the Southern Baptist megachurch pastor chosen to offer the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration, says the Bible does not permit a woman to divorce a spouse who is abusing her….

HOUSTON (ABP) — What could bring together the members of a Houston Baptist church and employees of a restaurant known as much for its buxom, midriff-baring waitresses as for its food? God's love — and sharing it with neighbors in…

HOUSTON (ABP) — What could bring together the members of a Houston Baptist church and employees of a restaurant known as much for its buxom, midriff-baring waitresses as for its food? God’s love — and sharing it with neighbors in…

LUBBOCK, Texas (ABP) — When 21-year-old Matt Williams transferred to Texas Tech University last August, he was just excited about making new friends and getting involved at First Baptist Church in Lubbock, where the school is located.  But after winning…

LUBBOCK, Texas (ABP) — When 21-year-old Matt Williams transferred to Texas Tech University last August, he was just excited about making new friends and getting involved at First Baptist Church in Lubbock, where the school is located.  But after winning…

GAZA CITY, Palestine (ABP) — Fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants has damaged a Baptist church in Gaza. On Dec. 27, the Israeli Air Force launched a series of attacks on targets throughout Gaza retaliating against rocket and mortar…

CLEVELAND (ABP) — A hero of the Civil Rights Movement regarded as one of America’s best African-American preachers has stepped down after 54 years as a pastor. Otis Moss Jr., 73, preached his farewell sermon Dec. 29 to about 3,000 worshipers at…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Baptist leader Griffin Bell, who served as the nation's attorney general during President Carter's administration and was a longtime benefactor of Mercer University, died Jan. 5 after long battles with pancreatic cancer and kidney disease. He was…

Griffin Bell delivers a speech at a 2007 Mercer event (PHOTO: Mercer University).ATLANTA (ABP) — Baptist leader Griffin Bell, who served as the nation’s attorney general during President Carter’s administration and was a longtime benefactor of Mercer University, died Jan….

OCEAN GROVE, N.J. (ABP) — A New Jersey department said a Methodist group discriminated against a lesbian couple by denying them permission to hold their civil union on its beachfront property. New Jersey’s Division on Civil Rights announced Dec. 29…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Baptists, they say, multiply by dividing. And the various Baptist churches and denominational groups represented in the incoming 111th Congress are emblematic of America’s broad array of Baptists — and of religious life in general. While precise…