Historical drama Pressure clears the air on speaking truth to power

WASHINGTON (ABP) — In an apparent attempt to address a controversy that has swirled since the 2004 general election, a group of Catholic Democrats in the House of Representatives issued a document Feb. 28 explaining how they reconcile their faith…

DALLAS (ABP) – A man convicted of murdering three Southern Baptist missionaries in a Yemeni hospital in 2002 died by firing squad Feb. 27, Reuters reported. Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel's execution happened in the southern Ibb province, the same region…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A unanimous Supreme Court declared Feb. 28 that a federal law originally aimed at mobsters can't be used to shut down abortion-clinic protests. The high court already ruled in 2003 that one federal anti-racketeering law cannot be…

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Speaking Feb. 24 in the birthplace of the First Amendment's religion clauses, a Baptist minister who is a professional opponent of the Religious Right warned Baptists to be equally vigilant. Welton Gaddy, president of the Washington-based…

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – Trustees of the North American Mission Board are asking a task force to see if there is any truth to allegations — first reported in the Christian Index — that NAMB's evangelism and church-planting efforts are…

WACO, Texas, (ABP) – Baylor University's previously quiet campaign to bring the proposed George W. Bush Presidential Library to campus might get a whole lot louder if one Dallas attorney has his way. Gary Vodicka is suing Southern Methodist University,…

SAN DIEGO (ABP) — Henry Morris, best known for his work challenging the credibility of the naturalistic and evolutionary theories of origins, died Feb. 25 at 87 after a brief illness. Both friends and critics considered Morris the person most…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — As they continue to evaluate evidence in a recent string of 10 church fires in rural Alabama, federal investigators have come one step closer to solving the case: They found the getaway car. “It was a…

DURHAM, N.C., (ABP) – In a demonstration of their commitment to develop young clergy, roughly 40 churches across the East Coast and Southwest have signed a covenant to coordinate their efforts and hopefully avert a clergy shortage. As founding members…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A wide-ranging abortion ban that South Dakota legislators passed Feb. 24 is poised to head exactly where its backers want it — the Supreme Court. But despite the addition of two new conservative justices, the high court…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A report from the Internal Revenue Service determined that nearly three quarters of the churches and other charities it investigated violated federal tax laws during the 2004 election. The report, released Feb. 24 by a special IRS…