Historical drama Pressure clears the air on speaking truth to power

DALLAS (ABP) — As violent protests to caricatures of Muhammad intensify in the Muslim world, an Iranian newspaper has found a new way to express outrage: holding a contest for cartoons to make light of the Holocaust and its victims….

WACO, Texas (ABP) — A new survey of Baptist newlyweds suggests that, though true love does not always wait, it waits more often if it starts with a formal pledge of purity. While a majority of church-going young couples in…

Jim Newton/CBF Miss. BJC Director Brent Walker speaks at Northside Baptist Church, Clinton, Miss. CLINTON, Miss. (ABP) — A Baptist religious-freedom expert is warning that the spike in American public religiosity that has resulted from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks…

BEIRUT, Lebanon (ABP) — Incensed Muslims sacked Christian neighborhoods and burned the Danish Embassy in Lebanon Feb. 5, angered by the publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. Although some Muslim leaders appealed for peace, more than 20,000 protesters threw…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Bush formally presented Congress Feb. 6 with a $2.77 trillion budget proposal that would increase military spending and extend tax cuts but reduce spending on social programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. The announcement comes just…

CENTREVILLE, Ala. (ABP) — Federal officials suspect arson in a series of fires that damaged or destroyed five small Baptist churches in rural Bibb County, Ala., the night of Feb. 2-3. In addition, a sixth church in neighboring Chilton County…

DALLAS (ABP) — After a 17-month-long search, the Baptist Convention of New Mexico has unanimously elected Joseph Bunce as executive director. The assignment became effective immediately. Bunce replaces Claude Cone, who announced his plans for retirement in July 2004. Cone…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The House of Representatives gave final approval Feb. 1 to a deficit-reduction package that cuts programs for the poor and elderly — over the objections of religious leaders and Democrats, who called the bill “immoral.” The measure's…

DALLAS (ABP) — Chowan College will change its mascot to comply with NCAA policies on Native-American mascots. This, after the school's president and board decided to forego the potential legal battle, time and expense of keeping the school's current mascot,…

In the Jan. 31 ABP story, “Senate vote on Alito reflects country's division on issues,” there were two errors in the third paragraph. Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate in 1987, not 1985; and…