‘He taught the Bible every Sunday from World War II to COVID’

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — A Louisville pastor is going to great lengths to distinguish his church from a nearby congregation with a similar name, which is hosting a national telecast aimed at thwarting a Senate filibuster on judicial nominees. Joe…

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — Brazilian pastor Fausto Aguiar de Vasconcelos has been nominated to lead the evangelism effort of the Baptist World Alliance, succeeding Australian Tony Cupit, who is retiring. If elected to the BWA's executive staff by its…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — By signing a bill April 20, Connecticut's governor made that state the first in the Union to legalize same-sex unions without being forced by a court. But, just a day later, Washington state legislators delivered a one-vote…

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (ABP) — A rewarding spiritual life may help slow the devastation of Alzheimer's disease, according to a preliminary study. “The data suggest there may be an association, meaning people with higher levels of spirituality and religiosity have…

ASMARA, Eritrea (ABP) — A sliver of hope widened a bit for Eritrean Christians in early April as the government officially recognized another Protestant group after years of persecution. The Seventh-day Adventist Church is the fourth Christian denomination to gain…

NEW YORK (ABP) — The National Council of Churches welcomed Pope Benedict XVI's announcement that Christian unity will be his central goal and urged the new pope to follow the ecumenical legacies of both John Paul II and the last…

(ABP) — The election of the hard-line German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope of the Roman Catholic Church is expected to continue the conservative doctrinal and moral arc of predecessor John Paul II but may hurt chances for closer ties…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The erosion of support for the First Amendment among high-school students sounds like “a death announcement about someone you love,” church historian Walter Shurden told attendees at a conference sponsored by the First Freedoms Project. Shurden, executive…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Baptists who believe in church-state separation need to do a better job of defending that principle in the public arena, two members of Congress counseled at a recent conference. Speaking in Washington April 14 at a conference…