HAUT LIMBE, Haiti (ABP) -- A medical missionary couple in Haiti jointly appointed by American Baptists and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship says it has not yet treated any cholera cases but is focusing on community education and prevention to halt spread of the earthquake-devastated island's
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) – The editor of North Carolina Baptists' newspaper has agreed to resign his post to prevent a threatened motion to defund the publication from being made at the upcoming Baptist State Convention of North Carolina annual meeting.
ATHENS, Ga. (ABP) -- A group formed 10 years ago to oppose fundamentalism in the Georgia Baptist Convention has decided to close up shop.
ROME (ABP) -- The elegant complex of 19th-century buildings that houses the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague, Czech Republic, will likely be sold now that European Baptist Federation leaders have green-lighted a plan to move the seminary as a cost-saving
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) -- Baptist leaders hailed a pledge by top leaders of Nagaland's three rival political factions to cease hostilities that have for decades beset the heavily Baptist state in northeastern India.
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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Against a background of mounting anti-Muslim rhetoric and violence, Baptist and other religious leaders spoke out Aug. 30 against Islamophobia and urged federal officials to take a more proactive role in safeguarding Muslims’ civil rights.
HOUSTON (ABP) -- A Baptist church in Texas braved near-100 degree heat Aug. 21 to set the new Guinness World Record for the longest chain of shoes.
Baptists from Missouri came away from the Baptist World Congress meeting in Honolulu with a fresh appreciation for the way in which Baptists can be united in worship and purpose.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) -- The head of the Southern Baptist Convention's moral concerns agency said Aug. 14 that he disagreed with President Obama's assessment that Muslims have a constitutional right to build the so-called Ground Zero mosque in New York City.