Court strikes down Louisiana Ten Commandments law

WACO, Texas (ABP) — W. H. Brian Jr., an attorney in Amarillo, Texas, will chair the 11-member committee to seek a new president of Baylor University, the largest Baptist university in the world. Brian and 10 other regents were named…

NEW YORK (ABP) — The Roman Catholic Church, with 67 million members, remains the largest church in the United States, but the Mormons, the country's fastest-growing church, rose to the No. 4 slot with 5.5 million, according to 2003 church…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Prior to his 2000 election campaign, George W. Bush worried about both the need to appeal more to conservative evangelical Christians and the danger of appearing too close to them, private audiotapes reveal. Doug Wead, who was…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — The Christian counseling department of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, which defined the role of pastoral counseling for generations of ministers and Christian counselors, will make a wholesale change by emphasizing “biblical counseling” over behavioral science. The…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Duke McCall said the tension at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary between behavioral science and Christianity dates back to when he was president of the school and Wayne Oates was teaching pastoral counseling. “This discussion is not…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — The Kentucky Baptist Convention has withdrawn its invitation to pastor and author Brian McLaren to speak at its evangelism conference. Officials said they made the decision after reviewing McLaren's statements about salvation and the author's most…

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — A Virginia legislative panel killed an amendment that would have altered one of the nation's oldest religious-freedom laws Feb. 21. On a bipartisan 10-5 vote, members of the Virginia Senate's courts of justice committee rejected a…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (ABP) — The legal saga of a severely brain-damaged Florida woman remains in limbo after competing court rulings. On Feb. 22, Pinellas County Circuit Judge George Greer ordered Terri Schiavo's feeding tube remain in place until at…

ATLANTA (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's fund for tsunami relief topped $890,000 by the end of January, surpassing all previous CBF relief efforts “With nearly a million given by churches and individuals, CBF will be able to continue our…