CORRECTION: This story includes a new fourth paragraph correcting a reporter's error. The original story inaccurately identified the Enough Project as an example of groups advocating a boycott of Congolese minerals. While Enough has urged companies to avoid using conflict minerals in manufacturing, the…
Baptist leaders denounce Muslim hearing
ATLANTA (ABP) — Leaders of four national Baptist organizations signed a statement released March 10 critical of the hearings by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Homeland Security on the subject of radicalization within the American Muslim community. Cooperative Baptist…
Newspaper reports Chowan-BTSR talks are off
MURFREESBORO, N.C. (ABP) — A newspaper reported March 10 that a possible merger of Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond and Chowan University in North Carolina is off the table. The Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald said the executive committee of Chowan's board of…
Slain pastor laid to rest
ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) — Mourners filled First Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, March 9 to celebrate the life of a young mission pastor cut short by murder, while more than 500 others watched live on the Internet. Clint Dobson Clint…
Houston Baptist University opens board to non-Baptists
HOUSTON (ABP) — Houston Baptist University trustees voted March 10 to allow non-Baptist Christians a minority presence on the school’s governing board. The move is designed to help HBU — the only evangelical university in the city of Houston — reach out…
Passport offers free online Lenten devotions
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — March 9 is the first day in a 40-day Lenten series titled Journey to the Cross at an online devotional website that recently surpassed the 1-million-reader mark. Passport, a student mission and education ministry started in…
Funeral of slain pastor to be streamed live on Internet
ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) — The March 9 funeral of a Baptist pastor murdered during a robbery in his Texas church will be streamed live over the Internet, according to a staff member at a sister congregation. Clint Dobson David McDurham,…
BJC’s Walker urges broader scope for hearing on radical Islam
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A Baptist advocate for religious liberty and the separation of church and state said March 8 that House committee hearings scheduled later this week on radical Islam should be broadened to other faiths. Brent Walker "The implied…
Churches gather for worship grieving slain pastor
ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) — Two Baptist churches in Texas gathered with heavy hearts for worship Sunday, March 6, grieving the murder of a young pastor and the attack of a 67-year-old ministry assistant in an apparent robbery the week before….