20,000 gather in Phoenix for Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2024

DALLAS (ABP) — Caucasian students continue to primarily populate college evangelical organizations, but ethnic minority students have started to join them in increasing numbers. Two of the nation's largest parachurch campus evangelical organizations, Campus Crusade for Christ and InterVarsity Christian…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — An independent federal panel charged with monitoring global conditions for religious liberty has once again elevated an evangelical scholar and leader as its chairman. The United States Commission for International Religious Freedom also elected a Southern Baptist…

ATLANTA (ABP) — A judicial panel of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has stripped an Atlanta pastor of the denomination's official ministerial credentials because he is gay. But Bradley Schmeling of St. John's Lutheran Church has vowed to remain…

ACCRA, Ghana (ABP) — Representatives attending the Baptist World Alliance Annual Gathering in Accra, Ghana, celebrated freedom during a plenary session July 4. BWA President David Coffey, of England, noted the near-concurrence of America's Independence Day, Ghana's Republic Day (July…

ACCRA, Ghana (ABP) — Neville Callam, a Jamaican pastor, theologian and author, was unanimously elected July 6 as the first non-white general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. He is also the 102-year-old alliance's first leader not from the United…

DALLAS (ABP) — A Bible college with close ties to the Southern Baptist conservative movement is in danger of losing its accreditation due to financial problems. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools announced June 28 on its website that…

NEW YORK (ABP) — Most leaders in Baptist missions agree that technology has changed the face of world evangelization. What they don't agree on is what it has changed the most. Some point to centralized integration of information, saying it…

In two recent stories, Associated Baptist Press repeatedly misspelled thelast name of prominent American evangelical historian Randall Balmer as “Ballmer.” The correct spelling of Balmer's last name is the one with a single “l.” Please change all references to the…

DALLAS (ABP) — As much of the world continues to wait for signs of peace in Israel, John Brown continues to wait for signs of oil beneath it. Brown is the chairman and founder of Zion Oil and Gas, Inc.,…