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WASHINGTON, D.C. (ABP) — Todd Bassett, former head of the Salvation Army, has been named executive director of the National Association of Evangelicals. Bassett will replace Ted Haggard, who resigned from the position after a Colorado man alleged Haggard paid…

DALLAS (ABP) — Worldwide an estimated 1.6 million people die each year due directly to violence. Violence is responsible for 14 percent of all deaths among males age 15 to 44 and 7 percent of deaths of females of the…

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (ABP) — Helping a church become a peaceable fellowship is a never-ending battle, Kyle Childress acknowledged. But as Christians “wage peace” in church, they learn skills that help them build bridges in a divided world, he added. “It's…

DALLAS(ABP) — When church members who disagree stop looking for solutions and start focusing on personalities, it's time to call a mediator, according to experts at a Virginia ministry that helps churches resolve conflict. Conflict becomes destructive and potentially irreconcilable…

MACON, Ga. (ABP) — An ambitious plan to unite Baptists in North America around the compassionate message of the gospel is not secretly a plan to get Baptists to elect Hillary Clinton as president, one of the plan's leaders said…

DALLAS (ABP) — A recent sex scandal involving two North Texas pastors and the women who accused them of molestation is unusual because the victims — by now beyond the statute of limitations for sex-abuse cases — urged authorities and…

COLUMBIA, Ill. (ABP) – A volunteer camp leader arrested for child pornography and indecent solicitation of a child met both of his victims through a camp sponsored by the Illinois Baptist State Association, according to police. While no crime is…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — After an uproar from an odd coalition of conservative religious, libertarian and business groups, the Senate voted late Jan. 18 to scuttle part of its sweeping lobbying-reform bill. The Senate amended S. 1, known as the “Legislative…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A new alliance between prominent evangelical leaders and their secular scientific counterparts to fight global warming is drawing bipartisan support in Washington — but also has some evangelical detractors. A coalition of 28 scientists, theologians, ethicists and…

MESQUITE, Texas (ABP) — A small group of Baptists met Jan. 16 in Mesquite, Texas, to discuss ways to fund some Baptist General Convention of Texas ministries but not necessarily support a state convention in which they feel they have…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Christian Ethics Today will sponsor an ethics conference June 27 in Washington, D.C. to address “The minister and politics: How to be prophetic without being partisan.” The free conference falls one day prior to the Cooperative Baptist…

GREENVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — A fire that damaged much of its building may bring unexpected but positive results to a Greenville, N.C., congregation. Memorial Baptist Church was one of two churches damaged by fire on Jan. 13. A third church,…