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LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — When 5,500 people die of AIDS every day, the need is not for charity but for justice, says Bono, and the church must do something about it. “That's a lot of our brothers and sisters…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan has finally gotten what she said her husband would have wanted: A pagan religious symbol placed on his government-issued gravestone. Roberta Stewart, widow of Sgt. Patrick Stewart, saw…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Supreme Court will, for the first time, hear a case directly related to President Bush's faith-based initiatives, his attempt to expand the government's ability to fund social services through churches and other religious charities. However, the…

UNEDITED NEWS RELEASE — BOILING SPRINGS, NC – Dr. Frank Bonner, president of Gardner-Webb University, provided the funds that made it possible for a team of divinity students to travel to the Gulf Coast this fall semester. Ten people participated…

Pictured left to right are: Dr. Marty McMahone, Ray Wilson, Danny Jeanes, Lauren Graber, Elaine Lipscomb, Harry Sweet, Stan McCarthy (moderator and representative of Acme Brick – one of this year's major sponsors), and Dr. Marcia Hawkins (President of the…

UNEDITED NEWS RELEASE — DALLAS — The Mainstream Baptist Network will explore the theme, “Voices of Hope: Why I Am Still A Baptist” at their annual Convocation in Dallas, Texas on February 23-24, 2007. The featured speakers will be Bill…

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — A woman should never need her partner's permission to save her own life, Bill Gates said. In Africa, where the AIDS pandemic is the worst, many women get infected with HIV by philandering husbands who…

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — The choice between preventing AIDS by teaching abstinence or by distributing condoms is a false choice, Sen. Barack Obama told a mostly evangelical audience on World AIDS Day. Instead, both methods for dealing with HIV/AIDS…

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — For Christians to love homosexuals like Jesus would, they should stop thinking of homosexuality as an orientation and start thinking of it as a temptation, says Tim Wilkins, himself “formerly gay.” Wilkins, who founded a…

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — For 20 years, Rick Warren was wrong about AIDS, he told listeners at the opening session of the much-anticipated 2006 Global Summit on AIDS and the Church. The megachurch pastor and mega-author said he initially…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Just weeks after Joel Hunter’s appointment as executive director of the Christian Coalition of America signaled a broader and softer image for the organization, a dispute over that new direction has forced him to step down. According…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A star evangelical pastor and a star Democratic senator have fired back at anti-abortion leaders who criticized an AIDS conference designed to rally Christians to fight the global pandemic. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange…