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

GRAPEVINE, Texas (ABP) — There are 1.3 billion people in the world considered “absolute poor,” according to information provided by Global Women. Of these, 70 percent are women. Two-thirds of the world's illiterate people are women. One woman a minute…

GRAPEVINE, Texas (ABP) — The popular “generic Christianity” represented by nondenominational churches holds promise for Baptists if they reclaim the importance of rituals, recapture the individual and communal aspects of church life, and respond to the challenges of secularism and…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who has played a crucial role in many of the Supreme Court's most controversial decisions over the past 24 years, announced her plans to retire from that body July 1. The surprise announcement…

GRAPEVINE, Texas (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affirmed a proposal for how the moderate group relates to its partner institutions and agencies, in spite of concern that the plan favors the strongest partners and harms the most vulnerable. “We've…

GRAPEVINE, Texas (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship approved revisions to its constitution and bylaws July 1, turning aside a move to make a commitment to Jesus Christ and evangelism explicit in the CBF purpose statement. The old statement said,…

GRAPEVINE, Texas (ABP) — Meeting during their annual general assembly in Grapevine, Texas, June 30, members of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship elected a female pastor from San Francisco and an African-American retired pastor and denominational leader to the organization's top…

GRAPEVINE, Texas (ABP) — Participants in the Baptist World Alliance “belong together because we belong to Christ,” Denton Lotz told more than 500 supporters at a dinner in Grapevine, Texas, celebrating the global Baptist group's 100th anniversary. The dinner preceded…

GRAPEVINE, Texas (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Coordinating Council, meeting June 29 prior to the organization's annual general assembly, approved revisions to the partnership study committee report and approved a one-time gift of $30,000 to the Baptist Center for…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — As Canada's lower house of Parliament voted to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide June 28, evoking strong responses from groups on both sides of the issue across the border in the United States. The House…