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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (ABP) — Henry Lyons, the disgraced pastor and convicted felon who campaigned to become president of the Florida General Baptist Convention, was rejected April 4 by delegates at the state convention's annual meeting. Attendees at the meeting…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A Pennsylvania county has settled a lawsuit over funding a prisoner-rehabilitation program that allegedly was filled with religious content. Bradford County, Pa., and attorneys representing six county taxpayers agreed to the settlement in federal court April 3,…

ATLANTA (ABP) — At the U.S. Air Force Theater Hospital in Iraq, the sounds of Army Blackhawk and Marine Sea Knight helicopters are a call to duty for Air Force chaplain Shane Gaster. Gaster, one of more than 90 military…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — The academic achievement gap between Anglo students and their African-American or Hispanic peers disappears when the students have intact, religious families, a new study says. William Jeynes, a non-resident researcher for the Baylor University Institute for…

The recent meeting of the Mainstream Baptist Network was the predictable celebration of “freedom” as the cornerstone of what it means to be Baptist. I will note only in passing the irony of a group that describes itself as “mainstream”…

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (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…

NEW YORK (ABP) — Associated Baptist Press has launched a news bureau in the world's media capital, New York. ABP Assistant Editor Hannah Elliott opened the independent news service's New York bureau March 15, a little more than a year…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (ABP) — Focus on the Family head James Dobson is attempting to deflect criticism for his recent comments that questioned the Christian faith of a potential Republican presidential candidate. Dobson, through a spokesman for the Colorado-based organization,…

NEW YORK (ABP) — On March 24, the Dallas Morning News received the Religion Communicators Council award for the nation's best religion section. It was the 10th time in 11 years the News had won. Unfortunately for the News, there's…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A bipartisan array of Congress members and evangelical leaders exhorted their colleagues March 29 on the moral necessity of immigration reform. Leaders from across the ideological spectrum — from Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)…

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (ABP) — Former President Bill Clinton, delivering a speech as a “personal favor” for his former pastor March 27, encouraged students at Ouachita Baptist University to help solve the problems of a rapidly changing, increasingly interdependent world. Clinton…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Baptist pastor and football chaplain Rick Ousley, founder of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala., has temporarily withdrawn from his evangelistic ministry after admitting to an extramarital affair. Ousley and the directors of his…