by Bob Allen | Mar 14, 2008 | News
Baptists in Ecuador are asking global Baptists for relief funds to help them respond to the worst floods in a quarter century. Heavy seasonal rains since January have inundated much of the South American country. Dozens are dead or missing and thousands have been...
by Bob Allen | Mar 14, 2008 | News
First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., reportedly voted Wednesday night to loan up to $500,000 for start-up funds of a new Christian academy. A Web site launched Thursday said First Baptist Academy of Jacksonville will open in the fall of 2009, initially with 240...
by Bob Allen | Mar 13, 2008 | News
An American Baptist leader welcomed passage by a House panel of a bill that would grant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco products. The Democrat-controlled Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday...
by Bob Allen | Mar 12, 2008 | News
President Bush chose religious broadcasters as the first audience for a series of speeches linked to the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq next week and a progress report next month to Congress by Gen. David Petraeus. “The decision to remove Saddam Hussein...
by Bob Allen | Mar 11, 2008 | News
More than 40 faith-based peace activists were reportedly arrested late Friday afternoon in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill for civil disobedience protesting the war in Iraq. The arrests followed a day of interfaith worship and prayer services across...
