High court says World Vision can hire only Christians
WASHINGTON (ABP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a lower-court ruling that the Christian humanitarian organization World Vision can fire employees over religious doctrine.
Violence taking toll on Syria’s Christians
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) – Many Christians have fled Syria as a result of public demonstrations and violent government crackdowns in the Middle Eastern country over the past several months, officials of the Baptist World Alliance reported Sept. 14.
Beyond immediate ministry, Christians called to address social inequities
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Patriotism, spiritual ties may pull Christians in opposite directions
Christians’ ability to transcend national pride while maintaining an appropriate patriotism especially is fraught in countries such as Russia, where national identity is associated closely with religion. Minority faiths frequently find themselves relegated to second-class status.
Progressive Christians flock to Wild Goose festival
PITTSBORO, N.C. (ABP) -- From Ontario, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta and dozens of towns and cities between people pulled into the dusty pasture in rural central North Carolina to see if four days chasing the wild goose in community with others could crack barriers and deepen
Texas Baptists seek to ‘Engage’ Christians in making disciples
Proper evangelism means more than sharing the gospel. It involves makings disciples—a process that affects multiple generations, Mike Woods, pastor of Coronado Baptist Church in El Paso, said during one of Texas Baptists’ Engage evangelism conferences.
American Christians urged to see Jesus in the poor and hungry
The church in the United States dare not ignore its mandate to seek justice for the world’s poor and hungry, Henry Williamson Sr., bishop of the Christian Methodist Church in Texas, told a world hunger conference.
Christians can eliminate widespread hunger, advocates insist
Christians can end extreme global poverty and widespread child hunger in this generation, leaders of organizations focused on world hunger told a national conference at Dallas Baptist University.
Christians, Muslims, Jews to share sacred texts
WASHINGTON (ABP) – Christian clergy across the country will organize readings from the Quran and other sacred texts Sunday, June 26, as part of an initiative to counter anti-Muslim bigotry and negative stereotypes of Islam.
Is it OK for Christians to cheer the death of a terrorist?
U.S. Special Forces did what they had to do in killing Osama bin Laden. How American Christians are supposed to feel about it is a little less clear.