WASHINGTON (ABP) – The United States Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on March 2 that anti-gay protests outside of military funerals by a controversial Kansas Baptist church clan are protected speech under the First Amendment.
HARRISBURG, Ill. (ABP) -- A Baptist pastor in southern Illinois believes before heads of local government can be expected to support posting the Ten Commandments on taxpayer property the churches should be posting them on their own lands.
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DEXTER — As the area's economy continued to decline, Steve Easterwood asked himself, "What can our church do to help?"
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NEW YORK (ABP) -- Observers of religion in public life have been scratching their heads about inclusion of a Baptist scholar known for advocating the separation of church and state in a recent Newsweek magazine article titled "Faces of the Christian Right."
TYLER, Texas (ABP) -- Two men accused in a string of East Texas arsons fires early in 2010 pleaded guilty Dec. 15 to burning five churches in a Smith County court.
Marcus Gardley's latest production, Every Tongue Confess, seeks answers to the questions that swirled around the spate of arsons that hit black churches in the South in the 1990s.
ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) -- A sometimes-controversial black Southern Baptist preacher recently honored an also-outspoken advocate for victims of sex abuse by Baptist clergy.
CANTON, Ga. (ABP) -- A Southern Baptist mega-church is at the center of a possibly brewing legal battle over the constitutionality of public schools holding graduation exercises in a church.
OAKLAND, Calif. (ABP) -- A Baptist church noted for its internationally acclaimed HIV/AIDS ministry is taking a festive approach to a somber occasion -- World AIDS Day observed annually Dec. 1.