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

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Virginia Baptists have approved a joint statement developed with leaders of Averett University that will end their 145-year-old ties to the school. The Virginia Baptist Mission Board adopted the statement during its spring meeting April 6….

WASHINGTON (ABP) — House Majority Leader Tom DeLay continued his rhetorical assault on the federal judiciary April 7, despite more temperate comments from his allies in the Senate. In a videotaped message to a group of conservative religious activists, DeLay…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) called for Americans to defend the principle of religious liberty at home and abroad April 7, with special emphasis on foreign policy and a controversial piece of domestic legislation. In a Capitol Hill…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — A second lawsuit involving the Missouri Baptist Convention and five affiliated institutions has been put on hold pending the outcome of an appeal in an earlier, similar lawsuit. At a hearing on April 5, Cole…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The mystery of the memo has been solved. The memorandum that said getting involved in the Terri Schiavo controversy was “a great political issue” for Republicans was authored by an aide to freshman Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.)….

INDIANAPOLIS (ABP) — Baylor University's Lady Bears basketball team won the university's first NCAA title in a major sport with a decisive 84-62 victory over the Michigan State Spartans April 5 in Indianapolis. The Baylor women's team finished the season…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Kansas voters made that state the 18th in the nation to adopt a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage April 5. With all but one of the state's 210 precincts reporting April 6, voters had approved an amendment…

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — Trustees of Southwestern Theological Seminary elected a controversial Muslim convert to Christianity as dean of the seminary's new undergraduate school, the College at Southwestern. Emir Caner, 34, was brought up to be a devout Sunni…

ATLANTA (ABP) — Since the Dec. 26 tsunami swept through Southeast Asia, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has been working to ensure clean water reaches tsunami survivors in several countries. Ranging from water-purification tablets in India to larger purification systems capable…