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Humor can help ease tension, wipe away some stress and make a person feel better, even in the middle of tragedy. Greene County Baptist Association churches found a way to open that release to Spring River Baptist Association pastors still helping Joplin residents recover from

N.C. county petitions U.S. Supreme Court to hear prayer case

October 31, 2011

author: Jennifer Harris

A North Carolina county is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court’s ruling that prayers offered in Jesus’ name at meetings of the county’s board of commissioners are a constitutionally impermissible endorsement of religion.

BJC says county’s prayer policy threatens religious liberty

May 12, 2011

WASHINGTON (ABP) – A Baptist church-state watchdog group urged the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a lower-court’s decision barring a North Carolina county commission from opening its meetings with prayers in Jesus’ name.

Missouri Baptist Foundation appeals ruling in Cole County

February 15, 2011

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Baptist Foundation is appealing a Cole County decision that would have forced the entity to return control to the Missouri Baptist Convention. The Foundation filed a notice of appeal to the Missouri Court of Appeals on Feb.

Foundation moves for amendment to or stay of Cole County ruling

January 12, 2011

The Missouri Baptist Foundation is seeking an amendment to a recent Cole County judge's order or a stay on the ruling's effects to give the institution time to appeal the decision.

MBC prevails against Foundation in Cole County

January 4, 2011

The Missouri Baptist Convention has won its legal action against the Missouri Baptist Foundation in Cole County Circuit Court after nearly nine years of litigation. But the legal wrangling likely is not over.

2010 Archives

County, church settle lawsuit over Christian school

November 19, 2010

BALTIMORE (ABP) -- A Maryland county will pay a Baptist church $3.25 million and allow construction of a Christian school that government officials have opposed for eight years under terms of a settlement reached Nov. 18 in federal court.

2010 Archives

Federal court returns MBC case to Camden County

September 22, 2010

A federal court has refused to hear the ongoing Baptist struggle over 1,300 acres at Lake of the Ozarks, returning one case to the state district court at Camden County.

2010 Archives

MBC moves Camden County case to federal court

June 30, 2010