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(ABP) — After months of pressure to reject the endorsement of conservative televangelist John Hagee, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain finally did so May 22 after the preacher's views on Hitler raised new controversy. In a decade-old sermon, reported…

Does ET need Jesus? Vatican astronomer says, ‘no.' Intelligent life may exist on other planets and has no need of redemption through Jesus Christ, the director of the Vatican Observatory said. “Just as a multiplicity of creatures exists on the…

(ABP) — Baptists continue to mobilize supplies and prayer in an effort to minister to victims of natural disasters in China and Myanmar. News reports May 22 indicated the death toll in China had risen to 50,000, with 220,000 injured,…

RICHMOND — Virginia Baptists are responding to the natural disasters in both China and Myanmar through the Virginia Baptist Mission Board's glocal missions and evangelism team. Terry Raines, the board's disaster relief coordinator, participated in a May 24 meeting of…

RICHMOND (BP) — The executive board of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia has selected a Richmond-area pastor, Jeffery Ginn, as the state convention's new executive director-treasurer, effective June 2. Ginn, senior pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Colonial…

PLANO, Texas (BP) — A minister from Prestonwood Baptist Church has been arrested in a sting operation for soliciting sex with a minor. Joe Barron, 52, a minister to married adults at the Dallas-area church, was arrested May 15 in…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Three Baptist universities were listed among the top 50 national universities in a new results-based ranking by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP), based in Washington. The two-year-old nonprofit organization ranked Wake Forest University at…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — John Lilley may be the latest endangered leader at the world's largest Baptist school, according to reports in the local newspaper. The Waco Tribune-Herald reported May 17 that Baylor University leaders declined to discuss whether the…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — One week after an effort to oust 71 members of Two Rivers Baptist Church failed by four votes, the Nashville megachurch voted again and this time removed the dissidents on a show-of-hands vote. The congregation was…