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Moderate Baptist leader Cecil Sherman dies Print E-mail
Baptists
By Bob Allen   
Saturday, April 17, 2010
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) -- Cecil Sherman, 82, one of the most visible moderate leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention controversy of the 1980s and first coordinator of the breakaway Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, died April 17 from complications of a heart attack.
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Judge rules National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Print E-mail
Nation
By Bob Allen   
Friday, April 16, 2010
MADISON, Wis. (ABP) -- A federal judge has found a National Day of Prayer mandated by Congress unconstitutional, saying it violates the separation of church and state.
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Founding CBF Coordinator Cecil Sherman suffers massive heart attack Print E-mail
Baptists
By Carla Wynn Davis   
Friday, April 16, 2010
ATLANTA (ABP) -- Cecil Sherman, former Cooperative Baptist Fellowship national coordinator, suffered a massive heart attack April 15, and is currently in critical condition in Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va.
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Benjamin Hooks, civil-rights icon and Baptist minister, dead at 85 Print E-mail
Baptists
By Bob Allen   
Friday, April 16, 2010
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) -- Civil-rights icon and Baptist minister Benjamin Hooks died April 15 in Memphis, Tenn. He was 85.
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Russia adoption controversy hasn’t affected Buckner program Print E-mail
World
By ABP staff   
Thursday, April 15, 2010

DALLAS (ABP) -- Officials at Buckner International say the recent political furor over a news report about a mother who sent her adopted son back to Russia on a one-way flight has not affected the group’s “Angels from Abroad” orphan hosting program scheduled for this summer. The story has generated threats from Russian foreign ministry officials to suspend adoptions from the country.

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