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WASHINGTON (ABP) — A new era began at the Supreme Court Jan. 31 when Samuel Alito took a crucial seat on the panel, little more than an hour after a close Senate confirmation vote — a vote that reflected the…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Baptist leaders mourned the passing of a life — and an era — Jan. 31 in honoring the legacy of Coretta Scott King. Family members told media organizations Jan. 31 that King, the widow of slain civil-rights…

DALLAS (ABP) — Doctrinal differences among Southern Baptist conservatives apparently have claimed another victim — Scott Camp, dean of students at Criswell College in Dallas. Camp's contract as dean, which ran through Jan. 31, was not renewed, in part because…

HELEN, Ga. (ABP) — The death of a 32-year-old North American Mission Board missionary is under investigation by officials in the north Georgia county where he lived. The sheriff's office in White County, Ga., is investigating the Jan. 27 death…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — New video footage of four Christian peace activists held hostage in Iraq has buoyed hope among their friends and loved ones — weeks after their captors' deadline for executing them. After more than a month of silence,…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — An apparently coordinated series of bomb attacks Jan. 29 targeted Iraq's Christian minority, killing three and injuring more. Bombs exploded within minutes of each other during Sunday services at two churches in the northern city of Kirkuk….

BAYTOWN, Texas (ABP) — A conservative church in Baytown, Texas, has been kicked out of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention because it lets a ministry to homosexuals use church meeting space. Although the Eklektos ministry affirms homosexuality, the church…

NEWNAN, Ga. (ABP) — W. Starr Miller, president emeritus of Brewton-Parker College, a Georgia Baptist school in Mt. Vernon, Ga., died Jan. 26. Miller, 84, had lived in Newnan, Ga., in retirement. Miller served as Brewton-Parker's president from 1979 to…