Texas Baptists conduct medical clinics in two villages in Senegal
The language of love in action communicates around the globe, an 11-member Texas Baptist team recently discovered as they shared the hope of Christ in two Senegalese villages.
Texas Baptist Men chainsaw crews headed to Alabama
Six Texas Baptist Men disaster relief teams have been deployed to serve in the wake of devastating tornados in Alabama.
Supreme Court sides with Texas in case involving prisoner-s rights
WASHINGTON (ABP) – The United States Supreme Court ruled April 20 that a federal law protecting the religious liberty of prison inmates does not entitle a prisoner to monetary damages if that right is denied.
Texas Baptist disaster response team scheduled to go to Japan
Two veteran Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers, a Japanese Dallas pastor and a videographer are slated to leave for Japan March 24 to assist the disaster response effort there and look for places where Texas Baptists can serve.
Suspects plead guilty to East Texas church arsons
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.
Interfaith Alliance urges textbook publishers to ignore Texas teaching standards
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A Baptist preacher who leads a national interfaith organization has written leading publishers around the country to urge them to reject changes made to standards for teaching about social studies, history and economics in Texas.
Texas church fire ruled arson
TEMPLE, Texas (ABP) -- Investigators said Jan. 29 that a fire that gutted the sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Temple, Texas, on Jan. 19 was set deliberately. The case is now being treated as a criminal investigation.
Grace Crozier, 93, dies in Plano, Texas
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Grace Lewis Wooderson Crozier, 93, of Plano, Texas, died on July 2. Born Aug. 9, 1915, in Gentry County, one of the eight children of
Changing the world begins at home for South Texas youth group
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Texas has highest rate of child hunger in nation
Roughly 22 percent of Texans under age 18 and 23 percent under age 5 are unsure where their next meal will come from — the highest percentage in the nation, according to a new study.