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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — The Florida Baptist Convention is among a coalition of organizations that announced, on Valentine's Day, a drive to amend the Florida Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. At a Feb. 14 news conference, an alliance calling itself…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — The Missouri Baptist Building is once again on the market, after voters Feb. 8 gave a resounding “no” to a sales tax increase that would have funded a county government's purchase of the property. Voters…

ATLANTA (ABP) — A plan under consideration by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship would cap CBF funding of outside organizations, which could reduce CBF support for some traditional ministry partners by as much as 31 percent. The long-awaited proposal from the…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — For the second time in as many years, a House panel has approved a bill that would allow some government-funded charities to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion. On a party-line vote Feb. 9, a…

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — The leader of Polish Baptists is expressing his “regret and sorrow” about a meeting, planned for Warsaw this summer, that at least one Southern Baptist Convention leader has described as an organizational gathering for “an…

ATLANTA (ABP) – With the dollar bills and coins they collected taped to yardsticks and rulers, children at Riverchase Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., paraded down the sanctuary aisles Jan. 30 to contribute money for tsunami relief efforts in South…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ABP) — Echoing much of what the U.S. Department of State said in a recent travel alert, Texas River Ministry leaders said the Texas-Mexico border remains safe as long as church groups exercise “common sense.” The State…

HOUSTON (ABP) — God is calling Hispanic Baptists to overcome the “giants” of poverty, lack of education and ingrained religious traditions in their communities, a seminary professor told a Texas group. Speaking at the Baptist General Convention of Texas' Hispanic…

NEW YORK (ABP) — A state judge has ordered New York City officials to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on an equal basis with heterosexual couples. On Feb. 4, New York Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan said a law…