Pastor calls church to prayer over Obama
A Southern Baptist mega church pastor shelved his prepared Mother's Day sermon and instead led 6,000 worshippers in prayer over President Obama’s May 9 statement that he supports gay marriage.
Prayer in the air and in a cluster of patients
Broadcast and print news outlets reported the dramatic story of a March 27 JetBlue flight from New York that made an emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas, after the pilot began acting and speaking erratically and had to be locked out of
Santorum gets prayer at Baptist church
CORDOVA, Tenn. (ABP) – A Catholic presidential candidate received a prayer of blessing from a Southern Baptist mega-church during a campaign visit to Memphis.
The haystack prayer meeting
Various missionary-sending bodies and denominational groups are readying for the bicentennial of the American missionary movement, which will be celebrated in Salem, Mass., Feb. 5-20 with nine different events. While William Carey had left England for India several years earlier to launch
Supreme Court declines to review prayer case
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court declined Jan. 17 to reconsider a lower court’s decision barring a North Carolina county from invoking prayers in Jesus’ name at twice-a-month meetings of its main governing body.
A Time to Wait: Prayer has awesome power
I remember the specially made Advent wreaths of my childhood. To give us more Scripture and tradition, Mom had us take turns reading every week. We also did this at church, a
N.C. county petitions U.S. Supreme Court to hear prayer case
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.
Baptist peace group urges prayer for Liberian elections
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) – A Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America delegation just back from two weeks conducting training in conflict transformation and non-violence with Liberian pastors and leaders is calling on Christians everywhere to join in prayer and fasting for upcoming national elections.
Baptists seek to cover I-10 with prayer about human trafficking
A coalition of national Woman's Missionary Union, state WMU groups, anti-trafficking organizations, state Baptist conventions and churches are attempting to canvass the entire length of Interstate 10 with prayer against human trafficking as well as for its victims.
Court strikes down school board’s prayer policy
PHILADELPHIA (ABP) – A federal appeals court ruled Aug. 5 that a Delaware school board’s practice of opening meetings with prayer is unconstitutional.