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EDITOR'S NOTE: Frank S. Page, president of the SBC Executive Committee, has issued a call to prayer for revival and spiritual awakening for our churches, our nation and our world during 2013. Baptist Press will carry First-Person articles during the year ...more
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Meeting Thursday in Grapevine, Texas, the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America will decide whether it will retain or revise its historic membership policy on the issue of homosexuality. The 1,400 voting members of the B.S.A. ...more
EDITOR'S NOTE: This report and commentary by Kelly Boggs, editor of the Louisiana Baptist Message, follows his May 3 Baptist Press report on the vote by Louisiana College trustees to exonerate the college president, Joe Aguillard, of charges of misappropr ...more
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) -- China, the world's largest producer of textiles and manufactured goods, is now the largest producer of Bibles. In 2012, the country's sole Bible printer, Amity Printing, produced 12 million Bibles and New Testaments.Although the ...more
WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. State Department disappointed religious freedom advocates by again failing to designate in its latest annual report the world's worst violators of the human right.The 2012 International Religious Freedom Report, the first re ...more
WASHINGTON (BP) -- A record number of Americans believe homosexuality is morally acceptable and is something people are born with, according a new Gallup poll.Fifty-nine percent of U.S. adults say gay and lesbian relations are morally acceptable while ...more
WASHINGTON (BP) -- A U.S. Senate committee has approved immigration reform legislation without including provisions for same-sex partners opposed by Southern Baptist and other evangelical Christian leaders.The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 Tues ...more
MOORE, Okla. (BP) -- Southern Baptists throughout social media took note that NBC News anchor Brian Williams and reporter Harry Smith mentioned on air the quick response of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief workers in Moore, Okla., Tuesday (May 21). "In ...more
EL CAJON, Calif. (BP) -- We all have "I" trouble. Our first thoughts tend to be of ourselves, and we're jealous for our own standing. Our conversation centers on ourselves. Our spending is lavished on ourselves. Our favorite prefix is self-, as in self-ab ...more
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- CNN reported on a tragic story about a woman whose boyfriend tricked her into taking an abortion-inducing drug after she told him she was pregnant. The boyfriend, John Andrew Welden, is now facing first-degree murder charges f ...more
