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PINEVILLE, La. (ABP) — Trustees of Louisiana College voted Sept. 24 to offer the presidency of the embattled school to Malcolm Yarnell, a seminary dean with conservative credentials. Yarnell, assistant dean of theological studies and associate professor of systemic theology…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (ABP) – The Florida Supreme Court ruled Sept 23 that the law passed to restore Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is unconstitutional and violates the separation of powers between the judicial, legislative and executive branches of the state government….

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would strip the Supreme Court and all other federal courts of the ability to decide cases involving the Pledge of Allegiance. On Sept. 23, the House voted 247-173…

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (ABP) — “It's nothing but rubble on the sand.” That's the news Paul Smith, pastor of Romar Beach Baptist Church, got from congregation members who watched televised reports of Hurricane Ivan smashing into the beachfront church building….

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — America is approaching “the most crucial election process in our lifetime,” according to Richard Land, executive director of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Though not explicitly endorsing the re-election of President Bush, Land…

SUMMERSVILLE, W. Va. (ABP) — “Ivan the Terrible” is finally gone, but Baptist volunteers are just getting started cleaning up the mess he left — from the Caribbean to the Alleghenies. The storm first made landfall in the United States…

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Leaders of Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia have adopted a declaration endorsing the “diverse and unlimited” Christian vocations of women and “rejecting” both the Southern Baptist Convention's official opposition to women pastors and the refusal of…

BOSTON (ABP) – The Christian and the atheist – one British, the other Austrian – both shaken by war and personal tragedy, both clinging to the bitter end to their acceptance, or rejection, of the divine. The ideas of C….

Louisiana voters approve gay-marriage ban BATON ROUGE, La. — Voters in Louisiana have become the latest to endorse an amendment to their state constitution banning same-sex marriage. By a 78-to-22-percent majority, Louisianans approved the amendment Sept. 18. With 100 percent…

PENSACOLA, Fla. (ABP) — Hurricane Ivan — as powerful as Charley and as big as Frances — pounded the Gulf coasts of Alabama and Florida Sept. 15-16 with 130 mph winds. At least 13 deaths were blamed on Ivan —…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The State Department finally acceded Sept. 15 to years of requests from human-rights agencies, lawmakers and a government commission by naming Saudi Arabia one of the world's most egregious violators of religious liberty. Secretary of State Colin…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A House committee has approved a bill that would strip from the federal courts — including the Supreme Court — the power to decide cases related to the Pledge of Allegiance. On a 17-10 party-line vote, the…