Baptists called to pray for peace in Indonesia
___By Erin Curry
___SBC International Mission Board
___JAKARTA, Indonesia (BP) --Southern Baptists have been called to urgent prayer for fellow Christians suffering from Muslim extremist attacks in the Moluccas islands of Indonesia.
___More than 4,000 people--most of them Christians--have died in the fighting that broke out in January 1999 after a dispute between a Christian bus driver and a Muslim passenger.
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Job Corps empowers women for lives of faith & fulfillment
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___KERRVILLE--Some are unemployed single mothers with small children, and some are underemployed grandmothers. But all the students in the Christian Women's Job Corps are looking for a better life.
___"We're seeing God's handprints all over this program," said Patty Crick, project director for the Kerrville Christian Women's Job Corps.
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Vestal disputes BP reports, says CBF never has supported homosexuality
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___ATLANTA--The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship "has never issued any statement, taken any action or spent a single dollar that was intended in any way to condone, endorse or promote the gay-lesbian lifestyle," Coordinator Daniel Vestal said in a statement released July 26.
___He was responding to a series of reports in Baptist Press, the public relations arm of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. Those recent reports by Russell Moore, a student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., characterized the Atlanta-based Fellowship as funding and supporting homosexual activism.
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Hispanic women's conference celebrates hope
___By Matt Sanders
___Southwestern Seminary
___FORT WORTH--Motivated by the belief that fulfilling the Great Commission begins in the home, the sixth annual "Celebrating the Hispanic Woman" conference brought a message of hope and healing to mothers, wives and grandmothers who are at the core of home life in Hispanic culture.
___Nearly 600 women from all across the state attended the conference, held July 14-15 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
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House approves bill to protect religious broadcasting
___WASHINGTON (BP)--A bill to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from restricting religious speech on non-commercial educational channels passed the House of Representatives by a 264-159 vote in June.
___Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss., sponsor of the Non-commercial Broadcasting Freedom of Expression Act, called the vote a victory for religious freedom.
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