Court strikes down Louisiana Ten Commandments law

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of government displays of the Ten Commandments, and one local official thinks he knows why such displays are legal. “American law is all about God,” said Allan Watson, mayor of…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The House of Representatives has passed another bill giving religious charities the right to discriminate in hiring, even when they receive federal funds. On a largely party-line vote of 224 to 200, the chamber passed the Job…

NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — When Jim Blakely faced medical difficulties in recent years and had to be admitted to the hospital, a friend would ask if there was a family member who needed to be contacted. “I have no one,”…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — A major initiative designed to transform the lives of children and families domestically and abroad is being launched in 2005 through a partnership among African Baptists, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Texas-based Buckner Baptist Benevolences….

DALLAS (ABP) — BaptistWay Press, the publishing arm of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, will produce the Bible study materials for this summer's Baptist World Alliance Centenary Congress in Birmingham, England. The Texas publisher replaces LifeWay Christian Resources, the…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The justices of the Supreme Court waded cautiously March 2 into one of the nation's most controversial issues: Whether, and how, governmental displays of the Ten Commandments can ever be constitutional. Hearing oral arguments in two cases,…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Two different views of religion's role in government clashed inside and outside the Supreme Court March 2, as the justices heard arguments about Ten Commandments displays on public property. Charles Hoffman, an activist from Kentucky, held aloft…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — August brought a lot of the same for college minister Tim Willis. Same campus. Same students. Same mission. But there was one major difference – a new job and a new ministry venture. After 18 years…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — Sometimes the best way to minister to youth is by offering them less, said veteran youth minister Sam Hestorff. Youth ministry often contributes to the overwhelmingly busy lives of young people, said Hestorff of Bayshore Baptist…