Midland ministry learns perils of charitable choice
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___MIDLAND--President Bush's old stomping grounds have become a testing ground for his plan to provide government assistance to faith-based initiatives.
___The Midland Baptist Crisis Center recently lost its support from the government-supported West Texas Food Bank. Yet government collaboration with religious charities is a key plank in the faith-based initiatives platform.
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BGCT unveils new vision for 21st century
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___Texas Baptists are being challenged to embrace a mission as holy as Christ and as big as the world.
___The Baptist General Convention of Texas' Strategic Planning Committee has proposed a new BGCT mission statement that would declare the convention exists to "assist churches and related ministries to be the presence of Christ in the world."
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Indonesian Christians tricked into forced Muslim conversion
___By Brittany Jarvis
___SBC International Mission Board
___AMBON, Indonesia (BP)-- "My scar healed quite fast, but the sad, humiliated feeling stayed. I feel like I'm no longer complete, both as a person and a woman."
___That is the testimony of Christina Sagat, a 32-year-old Christian from Kasiui, Indonesia, who endured genital mutilation by her Muslim neighbors and forced conversion to Islam. Unfortunately, as traumatic as her story sounds, hundreds of women have endured similar oppression.
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Five Arizona Foundation leaders
indicted; three others plea bargain
___By Bob Allen
___Associated Baptist Press
___PHOENIX (ABP)--Five former Baptist Foundation of Arizona officials could face prison if convicted of crimes alleged in a 32-count indictment unsealed May 4.
___Three other former officials with the now-bankrupt foundation pleaded guilty to reduced charges in exchange for turning state's evidence at an initial criminal hearing in Phoenix.
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