Court strikes down Louisiana Ten Commandments law

AMERICUS, Ga. (ABP) — Millard and Linda Fuller were immediately dismissed Jan. 31 from their jobs with Habitat for Humanity International, the worldwide Christian housing ministry they founded and led for 29 years. The organization's executive committee charged the Fullers…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — While stopping short of labeling the humanitarian crisis in the Sudan's Darfur region “genocide,” a long-awaited United Nations report lays blame on the Sudanese government for creating the crisis. The report, released Jan. 31 by a five-member…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Leaders of four historically black Baptist denominations closed a landmark joint meeting Jan. 28 by issuing a statement on several social and political issues affecting the African-American community. Meeting in Nashville over a four-day period, officials of…

DALLAS (ABP) — Sri Lanka looks like the aftermath of a fatal car wreck — the bodies are gone but the devastation remains as a vivid reminder of a series of tsunamis that slammed the island nation — according to…

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Nathan Hatch, provost of the University of Notre Dame, has been selected as the 13th president of Wake Forest University. Hatch, a historian who has spent his entire academic career at Notre Dame, was unanimously approved…

ATLANTA – The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Foundation hired Bill Johnson, 48, of Gulf Shores, Ala., Jan. 3 as stewardship associate, responsible for raising funds for endowments for CBF ministry initiatives and partners. Johnson's primary focus is working with individuals who…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Campus minister Rhonda Abbott was hired by the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship Jan. 21 to the newly created position of associate coordinator for missions. Abbott, who began work Feb. 1, will coordinate missions efforts on a statewide…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A group of prominent evangelical Christian leaders — including heads of some of the nation's most conservative colleges and other institutions — have asked President Bush to pay more attention to poverty issues in his second term….

Editor's note: This story updates a previous one released 1/25/05 DALLAS (ABP) — “Experiencing God” author Henry Blackaby says the tsunamis that hit South Asia were God's punishment of an area where Christians have experienced particularly intense persecution. But Voice…