Dead or alive is the wrong question about Mitch McConnell

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A group of India experts speaking on Capitol Hill March 31 had a message for American policy-makers: Supporting religious freedom on the Asian subcontinent is ultimately in the United States' best interest. India has been beset by…

NASHVILLE (ABP) — The state of Tennessee will no longer place at-risk children in the care of Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes, in part because the children's ministry requires residents to attend church. The state Department of Children's Services last year…

DALLAS (ABP) — Churches can help children and youth succeed by focusing more on relationships than programs and on strengths rather than problems, family ministry leader Eugene Roehlkepartain insisted. Roehlkepartain delivered a keynote address at Hand in Hand 2004, a…

DALLAS (ABP) –Christian social workers face an unprecedented opportunity to “shape the shift” that is transforming their profession, a leading social-work educator told participants in a national conference. Most professional social workers were trained in programs “that were allergic to…

MACON, Ga. (ABP) — Cecil Staton, president of Smyth & Helwys Publishing, announced March 29 he is seeking a seat in the Georgia state Senate. Staton will run as a Republican to represent the newly configured District 18 in central…

CARY, N.C. (ABP) — The deaths of four missionaries in Iraq March 15 has not deterred others headed to the country, the head of the International Mission Board said. Jerry Rankin, speaking March 25 during the funeral for slain missionaries…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Massachusetts legislators gave initial approval March 29 to an amendment that bans gay marriage, but explicitly authorizes identical benefits for same-sex couples. However, the amendment cannot take effect until November 2006, at the earliest. So until then,…

DALLAS (ABP) — When missionaries answer what they believe is Christ's call, a growing number also may hear echoes of the martyred German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who wrote 60 years ago: “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come…

NAIROBI, KENYA (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is entering into a ministry partnership with two other groups to aid children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic in Africa. The Atlanta-based moderate Baptist group will participate in the Hope Child Sponsorship…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Senate has given final approval to a bill that treats violence against a pregnant woman as two separate crimes — against her and the fetus she is carrying. Opponents of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — In hearing arguments on whether the Pledge of Allegiance's reference to God is constitutional, the justices of the Supreme Court seemed concerned not only with Michael Newdow's case, but also with his right to make it. Newdow,…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — While the Supreme Court was hearing legal arguments on the Pledge of Allegiance case March 24, hundreds of protestors outside had their own oral arguments. But theirs tended to be more about volume than about legal nuances….