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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to wade into what is expected to be one of the most-watched cases in the court's 2010-2011 term -- whether the privacy rights of grieving families trump the free-speech rights of a controversial Baptist church infamous for picketing military funerals to protest society's growing acceptance of homosexuality.
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ATLANTA (ABP) -- With nearly $350,000 raised from churches and individuals for earthquake relief in Haiti as of the end of February, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leaders said March 9 that more funds are needed for ministry that will go on for months and even years to come.
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BOISE, Idaho (ABP) – Unless new charges are filed against her, the last of 10 Southern Baptist mission volunteers jailed in Haiti on suspicion of child kidnapping will have to be released, according to an expert on Haiti's legal system.
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DALLAS (ABP) -- A Dallas church has changed its website to identify
itself as inclusive of varied sexual orientations -- a move that
potentially could put the congregation at odds with the Baptist General
Convention of Texas, which previously has excluded another church over its embrace of openly gay leaders.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) -- The leader of the Alabama state affiliate of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will leave that post at the end of May to return to local-church ministry after a Texas church voted to call Brent McDougal as pastor March 7.
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ATLANTA (ABP) -- Bucking a trend in many churches to eschew four-part harmonies for praise choruses projected on a screen, a new hymnal released March 8 seeks to introduce both old favorites and lesser-known new compositions to a new generation of Baptist congregations.
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(ABP) -- Why is a plot of land smaller than New Jersey the stage for so much world history? I am leading study tours in Israel and Egypt as this column is being posted. This is my 12th time to travel in the Middle East. Each visit I marvel at the diminutive scale of Israel and think of the armies through history that have marched across her borders and fought over her lands.
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About 250 Baptist churches in Chile were destroyed in the powerful earthquake that shook the country Feb. 27, according to the Baptist World Alliance.
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