CHICAGO (ABP) -- America's five largest historically African-American Baptist organizations are cooperating to raise $50 million to help rebuild Haiti and provide aid to victims of a Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated the area surrounding the capital of Port-au-Prince.
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A Baptist church-state specialist voiced concern about a think-tank report urging a new direction for U.S. foreign policy focused on the role religion plays in world affairs.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) -- Servando Silva and Matt Johnson were packed for Haiti before there was a trip to pack for.
The Mission, Texas-based nurse and doctor had prayed for an opportunity to help meet medical needs in the wake of
South Gate Baptist Church, Springfield, ministered with God's Appalachian Partnership in Eastern Kentucky to provide gifts for hurting families.
MERIDIAN, Idaho (ABP) -- A mission team from two Southern Baptist churches in Idaho arrested for attempting to take 33 children from Haiti to a temporary orphanage in the neighboring Dominican Republic was only trying to help children suffering in the aftermath of the Jan.
ATLANTA (ABP) -- February marks the fourth annual Martha Stearns Marshall Month of Preaching, where Baptist churches are encouraged to invite a woman to preach. Associated Baptist Press asked Pam Durso, executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry since last July, about the emphasis and
TOCCOA, Ga. (ABP) -- The widow of a Baptist pastor killed last September in a botched drug arrest has sent notice that she intends to sue the city of Toccoa, Ga., and/or a three-county narcotics-enforcement unit involved in his shooting.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) -- Feeling the effects of a bad economy, several Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated state and regional conventions reduced budgets in annual meetings, held in recent weeks across the nation.
The Missouri Baptist Convention will hold its 175th annual meeting this week at First Baptist Church in Raytown, October 26-28. Use this link or click
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP)--Forty-two member institutions of the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities have been listed in the 2009 rankings of America's Best Colleges by U.S. News and World Report and Forbes.com.