A network of evangelical groups has gathered around the Baptist Foundation of Tirana in Albania to coordinate a Christ-centered response to the needs of more than 400,000 Kosovar refugees estmated to have entered Albania in the last few months. Eight years ago the European Baptist Federation launched an effort
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Soul Cafe serves up the gospel
(loudly) to Gen-Xers in Kerrville
___By Marv Knox
 ___Editor
___KERRVILLE--Imagine a sonic boom, and you've got a good idea what worship in Kerrville's newest church sounds and feels like.
___Actually, Soul Cafe--a 9-month-old mission of First and Trinity Baptist churches--isn't quite that loud. Call it comfortably raucous.
___And that's just the way Soul Cafe members like it.
___They represent a growing core of 18- to 35-year-olds in this scenic Hill Country community known more for retirement homes than for generations who will come of age in the third millennium.
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Legislature passes abortion bill
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___AUSTIN--Texas lawmakers approved legislation last week requiring that parents be notified if their minor daughter seeks an abortion, a move applauded by the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission.
___After days of contentious debate and parliamentary wrangling, the Texas Senate voted 21-8 to approve House changes in the parental notification bill--which some observers called the state's most significant abortion-related legislation in two decades.
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Religious liberty bill facing
threats from a new side--the left
___WASHINGTON--The latest version of the Religious Liberty Protection Act received its first hearing in this Congress with new opposition, this time from the left.
___While the prime opposition to the bill in the last session was from conservative Christians, led by Michael Farris of the Home School Legal Defense Association, this time the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force have joined forces against RLPA (HR 1691). Their concerns were expressed at a May hearing before the Constitution Subcommittee of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.
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