PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) -- Southern Baptist mission volunteer Laura Silsby will stand trial in Haiti on a charge of arranging irregular travel, CNN reported April 26.
Perhaps the time has come for Baptists today to ask in the same spirit whether or not Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians and others who are genuinely committed disciples of Jesus Christ are true Christians and have been accepted by the grace of the Triune God into
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.
ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) -- A prominent African-American Baptist pastor says the Southern Baptist Convention has not kept a promise made in 1995 to "eradicate racism in all its forms from Southern Baptist life and ministry."
FRANKLIN, Ind. (ABP) -- A former Southern Baptist pastor in central Indiana has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for molesting a 15-year-old church member in a relationship that began with him counseling the girl because she was not getting along with her mother.
CLARKESVILLE, Ga. (ABP) -- Nancy Schaefer, a conservative Christian activist and former two-term state senator in Georgia, was found dead with her husband March 26 in their north Georgia home in what is being described as a murder-suicide.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) -- A Nigerian Baptist leader says politics is the driving force behind recent religious massacres and riots in central Nigeria.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) -- The last of 10 Americans held in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping now faces a new charge stemming from an earlier alleged attempt to bus child earthquake victims to the Dominican Republic three days before the 10 Baptist church-group volunteers were
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) -- American Baptist Churches USA have given more than $1.2 million for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti, the American Baptist News Service reported March 12.