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(ABP) -- Last week the White House Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships issued its report to the president, culminating a year of efforts in rethinking the relationship between faith groups and the federal government. Their report is a major contribution to our national life.
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OSLO, Norway (ABP) -- Thirteen members of an unregistered Baptist church in Uzbekistan have been fined 100 times the nation's minimum monthly salary, an international news service that tracks stories about abuses of religious freedom reported March 15.
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VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) -- American Baptist Churches USA organizations have given more than $1.2 million for earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, the American Baptist News Service reported March 12.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) -- The last of 10 Americans held in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping now faces a new charge stemming from an earlier alleged attempt to bus child earthquake victims to the Dominican Republic three days before the Baptist church-group volunteers were arrested at the border Jan. 29.
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(ABP) -- A student’s Facebook entry chronicles the painful details of a
romantic break-up. Or describes an ill-spent weekend partying with
friends. Or scathingly blisters someone who holds differing political
views.
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Nils Smith (right) and Les Hollon (left).
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SAN ANTONIO (ABP) -- Nils Smith recognizes he has an unusual title --
pastor for college and online community ministry. But he suspects he may
be one of the first of a new breed of ministers.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) -- One Southern Baptist leader said broadcaster Glenn Beck's advice to his listeners to leave churches that preach "social justice" was stated poorly but basically on target, while another said the statement was so broad that it would include asking people to leave Southern Baptist churches.
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(ABP) -- Anne Rice, she of Interview with the Vampire fame, recommitted to her Catholic faith a few years ago and has since dedicated herself to writing novels that explore the life of Jesus. First came Christ the Lord: Out of Egpyt, and in 2008 Rice published Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. This novel, which I am reading now, depicts Jesus’ life as a young adult leading up to his first miracle at the wedding in Cana. It is fiction, of course, but Rice has tried hard to be as faithful to historical knowledge about Jesus’ life and world as possible. She imagines in this novel Jesus facing the temptation as a man in his late 20s to marry like all of his friends and brothers.
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