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WASHINGTON (ABP) — Congress' extraordinary attempt to keep Terri Schiavo alive has failed, at least temporarily. U.S. District Judge James Whittemore denied an emergency request March 22 from Bob and Mary Schindler, parents of the brain-damaged Florida woman, to reinsert…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing the question of whether a federal law designed to protect prisoners' religious freedom goes too far. At stake is whether Congress can pass laws creating special protections for religious practices among…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (ABP) — Central Baptist Theological Seminary has filled two cabinet-level positions — one with a husband-wife team who will serve as dean and the other with a former administrator of the seminary. Dean and Lisa Allen will…

ATLANTA (ABP) – The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will award 45 sabbatical grants for pastors in 2006. Made possible by a $1.9 million Lilly Endowment grant, the Initiative for Ministerial Excellence program awarded 20 grants in 2004 and an additional 35…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Congress has now intervened in the emotional dispute over a brain-damaged Florida woman's fate. Doctors were scheduled to remove the feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive March 18, unless Florida legislators pass their own bill aimed at…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Congressional supporters of religious freedom will try once again with an employees' religious rights bill they've been trying to get passed for more than eight years. At a Capitol press conference March 17, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.)…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Due to the prolonged illness of Baptist Center for Ethics Executive Director Robert Parham, a scheduled conference on faith and politics has been postponed indefinitely. Parham was diagnosed late last week with acute leukemia. He is…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) – Carman Sharp, longtime peace activist and Kentucky Baptist pastor, died March 14. He was 87. Sharp, who retired in 1984 after 23 years as pastor of Deer Park Baptist Church in Louisville, was founder of the…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) – Eugene Quinn, retired director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention church music department, died March 9 as a result of injuries sustained in a fall at the KBC Evangelism Conference March 1. He was 84. Quinn suffered…

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) — American Baptists will not be forced to recall large numbers of foreign missionaries from their places of service, thanks to an increase in giving to an annual missions offering. “A dramatic increase in giving, combined…