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LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABP) — Federal judge Eugene Siler was elected president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention Nov. 11. He is only the fourth layman elected to that post in the past 50 years. Siler, who serves on the 6th U.S….

JACKSON, Tenn. (ABP) – Several attempts to place more conservatives in leadership of the Tennessee Baptist Convention and its institutions failed during the convention's annual meeting Nov. 11-12. The convention's 1,905 messengers also adopted resolutions supporting the proposed Federal Marriage…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Conservative candidates swept all three key offices of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Nov. 11-12 in what was anticipated as a make-or-break election for moderate Baptists in the state. David Horton, 43, pastor of…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A federal appeals court has struck down part of a law that is the latest in a series of federal attempts to protect certain aspects of religious freedom. On Nov. 7, a three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A battle between two heroes of the Religious Right is shaping up in Alabama. On Nov. 10, Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor (R) asked the Alabama Court of the Judiciary to remove the state's chief justice from…

LUBBOCK, Texas (ABP) — The Baptist General Convention of Texas is a “work in progress,” according to newly elected President Ken Hall. Hall, president of Buckner Baptist Benevolences in Dallas, was elected to the post by acclamation during the BGCT…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — A Missouri judge has given an initial legal victory to one of the institutions locked in a messy legal spat with the Missouri Baptist Convention. Cole County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Brown ruled Nov. 10…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Conservative David Horton was elected president of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Nov. 11 in what was anticipated as a make-or-break election for moderate Baptists in the state. Moderate David Hughes, 51, pastor of…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — North Carolina Baptists twice affirmed a decision to oust McGill Baptist Church in Concord from the state convention for baptizing two men presumed to be gay. Messengers to the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina overwhelmingly…

MARYVILLE, Ill. (ABP) — Messengers to the Illinois Baptist State Association's annual meeting soundly rejected a last-minute attempt to make the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message its official faith statement. Instead, they adopted the recommendation of a state association's committee…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A new study suggests that one of the main arguments for government funding of religious social-service providers may be based on false assumptions. Researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis concluded a three-year study of the effectiveness…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Bush signed into law Nov. 5 the first federal restriction on abortion in 30 years, but barely an hour later a federal judge partially blocked its enforcement. Bush signed a bill banning a kind of abortion…