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(ABP) -- In my opinion, one of the scariest people in the world of a young pastor is the head usher at her first church. This I can pretty much verify by my experience with Edna May Reynolds.
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Chilean Baptist leader Raquel Contreras speaks during the BWA Executive Committee meeting March 10 in Falls Church, Va. (BWA photo)
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) -- Chilean Baptists’ top leader tearfully thanked Baptist World Alliance officials March 10 for the aid and support shown to her country since its Feb. 27 earthquake -- and said that the needs and opportunities remain great in the devastated South American nation.
“Maybe because Haiti is so big we have forgotten maybe how in Chile needs are tremendous at this point,” said Raquel Contreras, president of the Union of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Chile, during the BWA Executive Committee meeting at the group’s headquarters just outside the nation’s capital.
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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Twenty-five evangelical and Catholic leaders wrote members of Congress March 11 urging them not to let a dispute over abortion derail passage of health-care reform.
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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Jim Wallis, a politically progressive evangelical and longtime advocate for the poor, said Christians should stop watching or listening to broadcaster Glenn Beck for remarks urging people to leave churches that preach "social justice."
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OSLO, Norway (ABP) -- Uzbekistan has sentenced a Baptist arrested in January to 10 years in prison on drug charges that fellow Baptists insist are fabricated.
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(ABP) -- I'm a passionate guy. Not only do I understand when a person's commitment to his or her ministry prompts a passion that excludes consideration that another ministry might be just as valid, I often applaud it. Every ministry needs advocates willing to stand on a hill and wave the banner for it or that ministry will suffer the ignominious fate that befalls the lukewarm and anonymous.
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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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