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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Southern Baptist Convention messengers voted June 22 “to hold accountable schools, institutions and industries for their moral influence on our children.” The resolution also urges parents and churches “to investigate diligently the curricula, textbooks and programs…

ORLANDO, Fla. (ABP) — President George W. Bush mistakenly praised a church affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship during a speech to the Southern Baptist Convention June 21. College Park Baptist Church in Orlando, Fla., sent money to the SBC…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — The reason Southern Baptists are lagging behind in evangelism is not all the attention they give to issues of public morality, Bobby Welch told reporters after his re-election as Southern Baptist Convention president. Instead, a lack…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Bobby Welch was re-elected to a second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention without opposition June 21. Welch, pastor of First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, Fla., has endeared himself to Southern Baptists with…

ARLINGTON, Va. (ABP) — A Pentagon report on the religious climate at the United States Air Force Academy concludes that an atmosphere of religious intolerance does not pervade the campus, but that there are problems nonetheless. Air Force officials, led…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Touting his desire to build a “more compassionate society,” President George W. Bush thanked Southern Baptists June 21 for being “soldiers in the army of compassion” who make a difference in America and the world. Bush…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Bobby Welch was re-elected to a second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention without opposition June 21. Welch, pastor of First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, Fla., has endeared himself to Southern Baptists with…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention has secured its ties to New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, concluding years of wrangling over the convention's legal relationship with the school. Messengers to the SBC annual meeting in Nashville approved a…

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (ABP) — Forty-one years after the crime, Baptist preacher and former Ku Klux Klan member Edgar Ray Killen was found guilty of manslaughter for the slaying of three college-age civil-rights workers who were beaten and shot. Killen, now…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — After debate unusually acrimonious even by the standards of the House of Representatives, that body voted narrowly June 20 to scuttle a provision designed to hold the United States Air Force Academy accountable for reports of religious…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Five Missouri Baptist Convention-related entities are seeking a rehearing of a recent appeal that returned an ongoing lawsuit against them to a lower court. Lawyers for The Baptist Home, Windermere Baptist Conference Center, Missouri Baptist…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — For the fourth year in a row, President George W. Bush will speak — by live video — to messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention when they meet next week in Nashville, Tenn. Bush will address…