DIDCOT, England (ABP) – The Baptist Times, an award-winning newspaper published weekly for British Baptists for 156 years, will cease both print and digital editions at the end of the year.
WASHINGTON (ABP) – Environmental activists claimed a victory Nov. 10 when President Obama ordered an environmental review of a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast called Keystone XL.
HUSTONVILLE, Ky. (ABP) – With the Nov. 11 release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the eighth and final film in the long-running series based on books by J.K. Rowling on DVD and Blu-ray, a Southern Baptist pastor has written a Bible
A new documentary film about the infamous Salem witch trials--Salem Witch Hunt: Examine the Evidence-- stirring fresh debate by heaping blame on the local minister, Samuel Parris.
ST. LOUIS (ABP) – The NAACP and National Baptist Convention gathered together Nov. 10-12 in St. Louis to co-sponsor a conference on “Faith, Family and Community Empowerment.”
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) –- Teams from the Baptist World Alliance and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople held exploratory talks Oct. 30-Nov. 2 that could lead to formal dialogue between Baptist and Orthodox Christians internationally.
CHICAGO (ABP) – Roy Medley, general secretary of American Baptist Churches USA, was elected president-elect of the National Council of Churches Nov. 9 at a meeting of the NCC governing board in Chicago.
ATLANTA (ABP) -- The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship officers have named a nine-member search committee to find a replacement for Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal, who will retire June 30, 2012.
