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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.But now they've lost an 8-m ...more

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP) -- The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America has made a decision on the organization's official position concerning the legitimacy and moral nature of homosexuality. As a result, Christians and conservatives will now be forced ...more

EDITOR'S NOTE: This column by Frank S. Page, president of the SBC Executive Committee, is part of the call to prayer for revival and spiritual awakening for 2013 that he has issued to our churches for the nation and the world. Baptist Press is carrying Fi ...more

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP) -- Recently I viewed a powerful documentary called "Honor Flight." Indeed, it is one of most stirring documentaries I've ever seen. Focusing on four World War II veterans, the film spotlights an organization bent on saluting the rem ...more

NASHVILLE (BP) -- The Gallup polling organization said Kermit Gosnell's murder trial did not change public opinion on abortion, but it also acknowledged Americans paid little attention to the case.In a survey conducted May 2-7, Gallup found views on ab ...more

WASHINGTON (BP) -- Pastors must exercise watch care over the people in their churches and preach all of God's counsel if they are to fulfill their responsibilities at a time of crisis in the United States, Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land told churc ...more

SWEETWATER, Tenn. (BP) -- When Clinton E. Riddle goes as a certified hospice volunteer to meet with a military veteran near death, he has instant credibility, such as the shrapnel he still has in hand.Riddle, 92, is a World War II veteran who understan ...more

EDITOR'S NOTE: Emeritus Southern Baptist missionary Jesse L. Kidd, who served for many years in Brazil with his wife Wilma, will turn 90 in September. But in 1944 he was 20, a soldier in the U.S. Army as World War II staggered toward a bloody end. "We wer ...more

GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) -- With the decision Thursday (May 23) to open the Boy Scouts of America membership to homosexual youth, the 70,000 faith-based organizations, including many churches, that have championed the virtues of "duty to God" and moral strai ...more

MOORE, Okla. (BP) -- As Corey Callens wades through the piles of broken furniture, brick, wood and toys that used to be part of his home, he stops every so often to pick up something shiny."The shiny pieces fool you," Callens said.The shredded child ...more