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String of Texas church fires reaches 10 Print E-mail
Baptists
By Bob Allen   
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
LINDALE, Texas (ABP) -- Two Baptist churches within three miles of each other burned Feb. 8, the ninth and 10th in a rash of suspicious church fires in East Texas since Jan. 1.
 
North Carolina Baptist Men plan long-term effort in Haiti Print E-mail
World
By Norman Jameson   
Monday, February 08, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) -- Nearly a month into an intense and immediate response to Haitians injured and left homeless and hungry by the Jan. 12 earthquake, it still feels like the second day of a domestic disaster to Gaylon Moss, who is coordinating the North Carolina Baptist response.
 
Pastor stays out of division reported among jailed Americans in Haiti Print E-mail
World
By Bob Allen   
Monday, February 08, 2010
MERIDIAN, Idaho (ABP) -- As news of dissension among 10 Baptists from the United States jailed in Haiti leaked into media reports, the pastor of five of the volunteer missionaries said his church continues to support and pray for the entire group.
 
Va. Baptist college president suddenly steps down, cuts staff Print E-mail
Baptists
By Jim White   
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)

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.

 
Southern Baptist leaders ask Obama to intervene on behalf of missionaries Print E-mail
Nation
By Bob Allen   
Friday, February 05, 2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) -- Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention urged President Obama Feb. 5 to do everything within his power to secure release of 10 volunteer missionaries jailed in Haiti.
 
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At age 8, Chris Carrier was abducted, stabbed multiple times with an ice pick, shot in the left temple at pointblank range and abandoned in the Florida Everglades. Miraculously, he survived (although blinded in one eye). But what happened two decades later may be even more miraculous. [Read More] ...

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