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WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Supreme Court will consider for the first time the constitutionality of a law intended to protect the religious freedom of prison inmates. The justices agreed Oct. 12 to hear arguments in Cutter vs. Wilkinson, which involves…

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (ABP) — Church members are giving less of their income to churches today than 35 years ago, and even less of those contributions are put to work outside the local congregation, according to a new study. Giving as…

PLAINS, Ga. (ABP) — After 22 years as pastor of a small Baptist congregation that includes former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn, Dan Ariail plans to retire next year. The 135-member Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., is…

AMERICUS, Ga. (ABP) — Millard Fuller, who founded Habitat for Humanity International with his wife, Linda, in 1976, will relinquish the title of chief executive officer but continue as “founding president” of the worldwide housing ministry. Fuller has been in…

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (ABP) — Although a resolution urging Christians to pull their children from public schools failed to gain approval of the Southern Baptist Convention last summer, the issue is expected to come to a vote in as many as…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A Southern Baptist layman credited with being the “godfather” of the modern Religious Right is dead at age 78. Ed McAteer died after a long battle with myeloma, a form of cancer, on the morning of Oct….

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Just three weeks after Louisiana voters overwhelmingly approved a provision banning gay marriage, a state judge has negated it, saying the amendment itself is written in a way that violates the state's constitution. Judge William Morvant of…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — To hear the vice presidential candidates talk, you'd think there was little difference between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry on the issue of same-sex marriage. Both Vice President Dick Cheney and his Democratic opponent, North Carolina…

PINEVILLE, La. (ABP) — Trustees of Louisiana College announced Sept. 30 that conservative seminary scholar Malcolm Yarnell will be the embattled school's eighth president. Yarnell, assistant dean of theological studies and associate professor of systemic theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological…

NEW YORK (ABP) — Christian leaders from around the world will launch a major anti-poverty initiative Oct. 15 in New York City with an ambitious goal — to cut worldwide poverty in half by 2015. The campaign — named the…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A new survey commissioned by an Islamic civil-rights group offers both good news and bad for American Muslims. The Council on American-Islamic Relations released the nationwide poll of 1,000 respondents Oct. 4. It showed, among other things,…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Roy Moore's long legal saga over the Ten Commandments, which began with a bang, has ended in a whimper. The U.S. Supreme Court, beginning its 2004-2005 term Oct. 4, declined without comment to hear Moore's appeal of…