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Baptists
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By Bob Allen
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Monday, June 14, 2010 |
ORLANDO, Fla. (ABP) – The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention voted in a closed session June 14 to elect former SBC president Frank Page as the organization’s next president and CEO, replacing Morris Chapman, who retires Sept. 30 after 18 years.
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World
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By John Hall
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Monday, June 14, 2010 |
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DALLAS (ABP) -- Religious liberty in China is expanding and the Chinese
Christian community is growing, according to a leader of China's state-sanctioned church -- but American observers continue to
hope
for more progress.
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Faith & Culture
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By ABP staff
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Monday, June 14, 2010 |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (ABP) -- A Louisiana Senate committee has shelved a controversial bill that would have allowed worshipers to carry concealed weapons inside churches, synagogues and other houses of worship.
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World
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By Bob Allen
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HELSINKI, Finland (ABP) – A Finnish court has sentenced a former Baptist pastor
to life in prison for participating in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, according
to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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World
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By Bob Allen
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Monday, June 14, 2010 |
Fidon Mwombeki delivers plenary address at Edinburgh 2010. (Gary Doak/Edinburgh 2010)
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (ABP) -- While Christianity's center of gravity has
shifted southward in the past century from Europe and North America,
missionaries from the global South are still not welcome as full
partners in global evangelism, an African missionary to Europe told a
recent international gathering of Christians.
Fidon Mwombeki, general secretary of United Evangelical Mission, talked
about challenges faced by South-to-North missionaries at Edinburgh
2010, the centenary celebration of a historic World Missionary
Conference held in the city in 1910.
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