No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — If American Protestants today have trouble knowing how to accept and assimilate a new wave of immigrants, they can at least take comfort in knowing their forebears wrestled with similar issues. “Americans have always struggled with…

ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) — Pentecost, and the Holy Spirit it celebrates, are largely overlooked in Baptist churches, pastor Dwight McKissic said April 27 at his Baptist Conference on the Holy Spirit. That lack of awareness is Baptists' loss, according to…

CHICAGO (ABP) — Most churches feel a duty to serve and minister to anyone in need. But if that includes undocumented immigrants, legal and ethical issues emerge that many congregations don't know how to address. And it's no longer just…

ISTANBUL (ABP) — As Turkish Christians reel from the recent brutal murders of three of their own — allegedly by radical Islamists — many Turks worry the possible election of Turkey's first devoutly Muslim president could mean more trouble. As…

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (ABP) — Juan Molina doesn't remember the last tornado that hit Eagle Pass, Texas, or Piedras Negras, Mexico. And he doesn't know anyone else who recalls the last one either. So when it started to rain earlier…

DALLAS (ABP) — The board of the nation's only independent news service for Baptists honored two leaders of Baptist communications and a Dallas congregation for their contributions to the cause of Christian journalism April 27. Meeting in Dallas, directors of…

BLUEFIELD, Va. (ABP) — David Olive will be the next president of Bluefield College, the Virginia Baptist school announced April 21. Olive, who currently is executive vice president and chief operating officer at Pfeiffer University in Charlotte, N.C., will be…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — After a 10-year struggle, the federal Department of Veterans Affairs has approved placing a symbol of the Wicca faith on the grave markers of Wiccan soldiers buried in government cemeteries. The decision is the result of a…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — In the first fallout from a controversial recent ruling on abortion rights, the Supreme Court on April 23 returned two cases — dealing with Virginia and Missouri state laws on so-called “partial-birth” abortions — to lower federal…

GOP presidential race again features faith, but new dynamics Democratic presidential race features more faith than usual ABP compares faith-based positions of top-tier presidential hopefuls “Faith and the presidency”: How the leading candidates compare Will Huckabee's strong Iowa showing bring…

The grotesquely evil act that occurred this week at Virginia Tech challenges the imagination's capacity to respond. I cannot say that I have some kind of comprehensive analysis to offer. I would like to say a few things, though, from…

GAZA CITY, Palestine (ABP) — In the latest violence among warring Palestinian factions, a bomb severely damaged the Palestinian Bible Society building April 15 in Gaza City. The building, located in the city center, housed the Teacher's Bookshop, Gaza's only…