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New director at CrossRoads. Reuben E. Todd has been elected director of CrossRoads Camp and Conference Center, a retreat facility owned and operated by Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia. For the last three and a half years, Reuben has served…

How can churches legally minister to illegal immigrants?

When the doorbell rings at many churches, a person in need may be standing in the doorway seeking some food, clothes, counseling or encouragement. If that individual is an undocumented immigrant, his presence presents legal and ethical issues many congregations…

Relationships key to helping immigrants, Baptist workers say

FREDERICKSBURG (ABP)—Every afternoon, Felicitas does something she thought might never happen. She meets the school bus near her Virginia apartment complex to pick up her son, Carlos, as he returns from another day of elementary school. Carlos has spina bifida,…

Anti-immigrant rhetoric nothing new, historians say

If American Protestants today have trouble knowing how to accept and assimilate a new wave of immigrants, they at least can take comfort in knowing their forebears wrestled with similar issues. “Americans have always struggled with immigrants. Non-conformist immigrants like…

Almost any immigration reform better than nothing, advocates say

WASHINGTON (ABP)—As Congress begins to take up immigration-reform proposals, some Christian immigration activists say there is no perfect legislation in the pipeline. But time is of the essence in getting something passed, nonetheless, they insist. A reform bill with broad…

Immigration laws have an impact on who a church can call as pastor or hire as staff

SAN ANTONIO—Claudia Munoz feels called to serve on church staff and is doing everything she can to prepare herself to fulfill that calling. She received a student visa and traveled from her home country of Chile to enroll at Baptist…

GOP presidential race again features faith, but new dynamics

WASHINGTON (ABP)—With Democratic front-runners talking openly about evangelical-style conversion experiences and Republicans lamenting that none of their top-tier candidates are bona fide social conservatives, experts say the 2008 presidential campaign may rewrite political playbooks on the role of faith. “Of…

Democratic presidential race features more faith than usual

WASHINGTON (ABP)—With many Republicans concerned their party's leading presidential candidates are not sufficiently conservative on social issues, Democrats have what may be their most faith-friendly crop of candidates in recent years. According to experts in politics and religion, faith-savvy Democrats…

Giuliani leads among evangelicals, Clinton leads among Catholics

WASHINGTON (RNS)—Presidential hopefuls Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. Hillary Clinton hold early leads among key religious voting blocs in the race to win their party nominations, a national survey revealed. The survey by the Pew Research Center shows religious voters leaning…

News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for May 3, 2007

STAFF CHANGES • J. Lytle Buckingham, to Sharon Church, King William, as pastor. • Bill and Mary Dell Sigler, resigning as co-pastors of Kilmarnock Church, Kilmarnock, effective June 15. She will become a bereavement and spiritual care coordinator for Hospice…

Time to relax

I was most impressed with your front page article in the April 19 issue. When a pastor leaves a congregation is a perfect time for a church to “relax, rest, regroup.” I advise a congregation, after a pastor leaves it…

Opinion: Communities don’t prevent violence, but they help us cope

“We are all Hokies now.” So reads a banner that appeared at a Baptist church near our home. It tries to express the empathy that most Virginians feel in the wake of the terrible murders at Virginia Tech. The school…

Nobody dislikes Southern Baptists more than Al Mohler

Trump EEOC claims more religious discrimination on vaccine mandates

What I wish Christians knew about Sharia Law

On telling a brother he is going to hell