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(ABP) — Imagine being invited to go on a short-term mission trip to a country closed to mission personnel and bordering a closed nation torn by civil war. Participants cannot disclose the underlying reason for the trip — ministry to…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A coalition of religious leaders are asking politicians in this election year to address what they say is a moral scandal: Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, much of the region is still far…

GONAIVES, Haiti (ABP) — Even as the attention of Americans turns to the disaster caused by Hurricane Ike in their own country, Baptist agencies are responding to  massive devastation across the Caribbean islands, battered by three successive tropical cyclones since…

GALVESTON, Texas (ABP) — Less than 24 hours after Hurricane Ike ravaged the Texas and Louisiana Gulf coasts Sept. 12, Baptist groups were mobilizing supplies and relief workers for the disaster zone. The massive storm — rated as a strong…

ATLANTA (ABP) — A new survey suggests the very Americans who claim to follow the Bible most assiduously don’t consult it when forming their views about torture and government policy. The poll of 600 Southern white evangelicals was released Sept….

ATLANTA (ABP)—A new survey suggests the very Americans who claim to follow the Bible most assiduously don’t consult it when forming their views about torture and government policy. The poll of 600 Southern white evangelicals was released Sept. 11 in…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Retired high-ranking military officers and national security experts at a national summit on torture Sept. 11 agreed: A policy that permits torture does not make the United States or its troops safer.     Steve Xenakis, a…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — “Poverty has been forgotten, and it has been ignored for too long,” declared Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) Sept. 9. DeLauro and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) were featured speakers in a teleconference with reporters to kick off a…