Americans value freedom but there are differences on what it means

WASHINGTON (ABP) — An elections panel in Michigan and a state judge in Louisiana have presented obstacles to gay-marriage bans in those states. The Michigan Board of State Canvassers deadlocked 2-2 along party lines Aug. 23 when asked to certify…

DALLAS (ABP) — Victim Relief Ministries, a Dallas-based non-profit organization with Baptist ties, will have the lead role in mobilizing the country's faith community in the event of a terrorist attack or mass-casualty situation. At the request of the U.S….

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) — The American Baptist Churches USA has released a total of $17,500 for relief work in Florida and Cuba, parts of which were devastated by Hurricane Charley. The ABC's National Ministries office released $10,000 in disaster-relief…

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (ABP) — Cooperative Baptist Fellowship relief efforts will be concentrated in two rural, inland Florida counties where rural and migrant populations were particularly hard hit by Hurricane Charley. “It looks like our focus will be on Hardee…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ABP) — Albert Reyes, president of Baptist University of the Americas and current first vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, will be nominated for president of the BGCT this fall. If elected, Reyes will…

ORLANDO, Fla. (ABP) — Not being able to get out of his own Orlando neighborhood because of fallen trees made it difficult for David Harding, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's national disaster-relief coordinator, to do his job. After making landfall a…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Pentagon's chief intelligence official violated military procedures while giving controversial religious speeches, an internal investigation has reportedly found. News organizations reported Aug. 19 that the Pentagon inspector general's office had given lawmakers a long-anticipated report on…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A federal judge in Washington State has upheld the constitutionality of a 1996 federal law that defines marriage exclusively in heterosexual terms — making him the first federal jurist to rule on the law. Judge Paul Snyder…

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) – Energized and angered by comparisons between the fight for homosexual unions and the civil-rights movement, many African-American churches are turning out to stand for traditional marriages. African-American churches across the nation have come together to…

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (ABP) — Hurricane Charley's unexpected course left death, devastation and frustration as it passed through heavily populated Central Florida Aug. 13. But even before the wind died down, plans for relief were well under way. Officials from…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Across Florida and the southeast United States, individuals, families, churches, businesses, and non-profit organizations will undoubtedly want to do something to assist those hit hardest by Hurricane Charley. But determining what that is may often be…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (ABP) — A divided state appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that the state's school-voucher program violates the Florida Constitution. In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the state's First District Court of Appeals ruled that…