Court strikes down Louisiana Ten Commandments law

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — One of North Carolina's most prominent churches has joined the list of congregations leaving the Southern Baptist Convention. First Baptist Church of Greensboro voted Sept. 15 to remove all denominational affiliation from its bylaws and cut…

ROME, Ga. (ABP) — North Broad Baptist Church in Rome, Ga., has left the Floyd County Baptist Association after the group adopted a statement of faith that, among other things, bans female pastors. Members of the church reportedly left the…

LITTLE ROCK (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas has chosen Ray Higgins of Little Rock as its first full-time paid coordinator. Higgins, pastor of Little Rock's Second Baptist Church for the last 10 years, will begin as coordinator…

GRAPEVINE, Texas (ABP) — If healthy families begin with healthy homes, then one Dallas-Fort Worth-area church recently gave several families a large shot in the arm. To celebrate the congregation's fifth anniversary, members of 121 Community Church in Grapevine remodeled…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Baylor University regents voted to postpone indefinitely a call for President Robert Sloan's resignation, and they unanimously rejected a request by the university's faculty senate to hold a faculty-wide referendum on Sloan's administration. After a motion…

PINEVILLE, La. (ABP) — Trustees of Louisiana College voted Sept. 24 to offer the presidency of the embattled school to Malcolm Yarnell, a seminary dean with conservative credentials. Yarnell, assistant dean of theological studies and associate professor of systemic theology…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (ABP) – The Florida Supreme Court ruled Sept 23 that the law passed to restore Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is unconstitutional and violates the separation of powers between the judicial, legislative and executive branches of the state government….

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would strip the Supreme Court and all other federal courts of the ability to decide cases involving the Pledge of Allegiance. On Sept. 23, the House voted 247-173…

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (ABP) — “It's nothing but rubble on the sand.” That's the news Paul Smith, pastor of Romar Beach Baptist Church, got from congregation members who watched televised reports of Hurricane Ivan smashing into the beachfront church building….