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BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (ABP) — For residents of this coastal town devastated by Hurricane Katrina, seeing their hospital disabled by the storm only added to their desperation. So when Ed Tate and other disaster-relief workers set up a makeshift…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ABP) — McKinnley Pittman lost all his phone numbers in the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina, and for eight days he didn't know if he also had lost his wife. Pittman took his wife, Geraldine, to a niece's…

BILOXI, Miss. (ABP) — “I'd been teaching others that we need to ask God to give us a spirit of brokenness and a heart to lean on him, no matter the circumstances,” said Ashley Austin, associate pastor at First Baptist…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Contrary to expectations, Baylor University regents emerged from their Sept. 9 meeting without a new president for the 160-year-old Baptist school, and Interim President Bill Underwood announced he had removed his name as a candidate for…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ABP) — In 1965, when Hurricane Betsy hammered New Orleans, a pregnant Rose Green told her husband she didn't think she could survive another hurricane. Sadly, she was right. Rose survived the winds of Hurricane Katrina, but…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Baptist churches aren't leaving disaster relief to the professionals. Many congregations and church members are opening their homes, wallets and buildings to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. First Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tenn., found the Gulf Coast's diaspora…

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. (ABP) — Mark Griffo describes himself as “a spiritual person but not a religious person.” He probably never imagined he would find himself sweating in a poor Alabama hamlet, working with a bunch of Baptists to…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Several Baptist-related institutions of higher learning are among those opening their doors to the thousands of college and graduate-school students displaced from New Orleans-area schools. Many of the schools are waiving tuition and fees for students…

GULFPORT, Miss. (ABP) — When the casinos first began to open in Gulfport in the early '90s, most area Christians saw them merely as a detriment. Wallace Majors also saw them as an opportunity, a chance to reach more people…

DALLAS (ABP) — The Baptist General Convention of Texas will direct $1 million toward hurricane relief in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The funds will be channeled to churches in those three states that are seeking to meet the needs of…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Although California became the first state to give legislative approval to gay marriage, the state's governor says he will veto the measure, preferring the courts to deal with it. With a State Assembly vote Sept. 6, California…

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (ABP) — “I slept on the street that first night,” said Angel Peña. “I tried to find the shelter, but I gave up. Then I found this place.” Since Hurricane Katrina swept over this coastal town Aug….