WASHINGTON (ABP) -- The U.S. Justice Department announced April 22 it would appeal a federal court ruling that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABP) -- The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled April 22 that Baptist-affiliated University of the Cumberlands cannot use $10 million of taxpayer money to build a pharmacy school.
WASHINGTON (RNS) -- A federal court on April 19 ruled an ordinance in Phoenix, Ariz., trying to limit the sound of church bells is an unconstitutional impingement on religious expression.
RICHMOND, Va. -- Friends and family members of Cecil Edwin Sherman filled the spacious sanctuary of River Road Church, Baptist, in Richmond, Va., April 20 to celebrate his life in the first of two scheduled memorial services.
Characterizations of the Soulforce Q Equality Ride stop at Southwest Baptist University April 14 range from "gentle" to "spiritually violent," depending upon the person asked.
While both sides agreed that a dialog was opened, both knew they had not changed the other's
NORMAN, Okla. (ABP) – Associated Baptist Press presented its Founders Award April 18 to Dan Hobbs, a longtime recording secretary of the ABP board of directors whoses minutes of meetings chronicle most of independent news agency’s first two decades of existence.
WASHINGTON (RNS) -- Researchers say they’ve found the most religious place on Earth -- between the southern border of the Sahara Desert and the tip of South Africa.
Officials at Buckner International say the recent political furor over a news report about a mother who sent her adopted son back to Russia on a one-way flight has not affected the group’s “Angels from Abroad” orphan hosting program scheduled for this
Officials with Buckner Adoption and Maternity Services say they have not received any official notification about the suspension of adoptions from the Russian Ministry of Education, the arm of the government that oversees international adoptions.
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A former conservative Congressman and ordained Baptist minister says extremists like Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church and members of a Christian militia group arrested in Michigan for plotting to wage civil war against the United States are giving Christians a bad name
