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Baptists
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By Jim White
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Monday, February 08, 2010 |
Michael Puglisi, shown during his inauguration as president of Virginia Intermont five years ago, had struggled with the school’s financial challenges. (Virginia Intermont photo)
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BRISTOL, Va. (ABP) -- Michael J. Puglisi unexpectedly resigned as
president of Virginia Intermont College Jan. 25, apparently at the
request of trustees of the Baptist-affiliated school.
And in what college administrators and trustees said was a move
unrelated to the president’s resignation, the school announced it will
reduce its staff by about 40 persons.
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Baptists
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By Bob Allen
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Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
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TEMPLE, Texas (ABP) -- First Baptist Church in Temple, Texas, has suspended operation of its 40-year-old Child Development Center indefinitely due to smoke and water damage from a Jan. 19 fire that authorities ruled arson.
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Baptists
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By Bob Allen
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Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) -- A top official of the Southern Baptist Convention said Feb. 3 he is confident that a church mission team being detained in Haiti on suspicion of child trafficking acted in good faith but that Haiti's government interpreted their actions "in the worst light possible."
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Baptists
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By John Hall
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010 |
One of hundreds of makeshift tent cities that have sprung up in Port-au-Prince since the earthquake. (PHOTOS/BGCT)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) -- Servando Silva and Matt Johnson were packed for Haiti before there was a trip to pack for.
The Mission, Texas-based nurse and doctor had prayed for an opportunity to help meet medical needs in the wake of the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed roughly 200,000 people. Within 24 hours of that prayer, a Baptist group was providing a chance for them to put their medical expertise to work leading clinics in a suburb of Haiti’s capital.
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Baptists
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By ABP staff
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Monday, February 01, 2010 |
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ATLANTA (ABP) -- February marks the fourth annual Martha Stearns
Marshall Month of Preaching, in which Baptist churches are encouraged
to invite a woman to preach. Associated Baptist Press asked Pam Durso,
executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry since last July, about
the emphasis and the organization that sponsors it:
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