Court strikes down Louisiana Ten Commandments law

CLEARWATER, Fla. (ABP) — The Florida judge who ordered Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed has resigned his membership in a prominent Southern Baptist church. According to media reports, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George Greer informed Calvary Baptist Church in Clearwater that…

(ABP) — The Sri Lankan government appears poised to vote on anti-conversion legislation in April, according to a number of media reports. If approved, the vote would cap a three-year effort by Buddhist leaders to stem the tide of rural…

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article expands and replaces one issued March 30. LYNCHBURG, Va. (ABP) — Fundamentalist Baptists in February formed a new international organization they hope will include Southern Baptists, who last year withdrew from the Baptist World Alliance,…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — National Woman's Missionary Union executive director Wanda Lee will follow through with a commitment to speak at the annual meeting of the moderate Baptist General Convention of Missouri in April — despite an attempt to…

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (ABP) — On March 31, Terri Schiavo's tragic 15-year saga came to a close as acrimoniously as it began. The 41-year-old Florida woman died shortly after 9 a.m. in her husband's arms, according to his attorney. But,…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Terri Schiavo is dead, but the passions and controversies her case stirred are certain to have a life of their own. Just hours after the incapacitated Florida woman died March 31, those who fought to keep her…

WASHINGTON, D.C. (ABP) — A search-and-rescue team from Baptist World Aid and Hungarian Baptist Aid is trying to find survivors on the Indonesian island of Nias after a March 28 earthquake measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale. According to reports,…

ABILENE, Texas (ABP) — Opera and West Texas may seem like an odd combination. But to the creators of Larkspur, a new opera about a pastor's struggles during the Great Depression, it's a natural. Larkspur, which premieres April 1-2 in…

LYNCHBURG, Va., (ABP) -Jerry Falwell's condition is improving after being hospitalized March 28, though doctors are still baffled why his lungs filled with fluid for the second time in a month. Doctors at Lynchburg General Hospital upgraded his condition from…