FBC Jacksonville settles defamation lawsuit
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) – A defamation lawsuit against a Florida Baptist mega-church has been settled under confidential terms, according to the formerly anonymous blogger who filed the complaint in 2009.
April 2012
The poor among you
The working poor may work more hours a week than the average salaried employee, but they do it at a cobbled-together assortment of part-time jobs without benefits.
Long days, short pay for the working poor
When Jeremy Everett, director of the Texas Hunger Initiative, thinks about the working poor, he visualizes Josie.
CBF initiative brings hope to nation’s poorest counties
CBF's Together for Hope initiative works for change in economic and social systems in the country's 20 poorest counties.
Baptist peace group opposes war with Iran
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) – Directors of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America adopted a statement March 28 urging “diplomacy over bombs” in the United States’ relations with Iran.
CBF missions coordinator stepping down
ATLANTA (ABP) – Six years after leaving Shorter College to become top missions administrator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Rob Nash is returning to the classroom at McAfee School of Theology, leaders of the Atlanta-based organization said March 29.
Popeâs visit to Cuba also opens doors for non-Catholics
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) -- Catholics weren't the only ones glad to see Pope Benedict XVI preach in Cuba this week.
New religious-freedom council picks criticized
WASHINGTON (ABP) – Two new commissioners appointed to an independent panel that advises the State Department on international religious freedom violations are drawing criticism for holding views described as out of the mainstream.
Prayer in the air and in a cluster of patients
Broadcast and print news outlets reported the dramatic story of a March 27 JetBlue flight from New York that made an emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas, after the pilot began acting and speaking erratically and had to be locked out of
Ricks Institute principal elected president of Liberian Baptists
VIRGINIA, Liberia (ABP) – A former war refugee who returned to his native Liberia in 2005 to run a K-12 boarding school has been elected president of the Liberia Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention.