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LUNEBURG, Germany (ABP) — A German Baptist theologian who led the International Baptist Theological Seminary through some of its most tumultuous years has died. Wiard Popkes, a retired professor at the Baptist Seminary of Hamburg and long-time trustee chairman of…

WASHINGTON — Frank Adams, general secretary of the All Africa Baptist Fellowship, died Dec. 27 in Kumasi, Ghana. His age was unavailable. Before heading up the African region of the Baptist World Alliance, Adams was the general secretary for the…

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (ABP) — John Merritt, general secretary emeritus of the International Baptist Convention, died of cancer Dec. 29. He was 76. Merritt served as a missionary with the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board — then known as the…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (ABP) — In the latest of a long-but-unsuccessful line of predictions and prophecies, Pat Robertson said Jan. 2 the United States will face a massive terrorist attack in late 2007. The 76-year-old religious broadcaster uttered his prediction…

BOSTON (ABP) — A week after the state's highest court chided them for not acting sooner, Massachusetts legislators relented Jan. 2 and OK'd a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in the only state that currently allows…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Students who gathered in Atlanta over the New Year's holiday may well remember it as a time for conversations about “things that matter.” Event organizers said the second annual Antiphony conference was intended to help Christian young…

BOSTON (ABP) — The same court that three years ago ordered Massachusetts legislators to legalize same-sex marriage in the state has rebuked — but not punished — the state's lawmakers for failing to vote on an amendment that would ban…

NASHVILLE (ABP) — Belmont University, embroiled in a lawsuit with the Tennessee Baptist Convention, has further angered some convention leaders by appointing non-Baptists to its board of trustees. The Nashville school announced, via a Dec. 21 press release, that eight…