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  Baptist campaigns for Congo crimes justice

  A Congolese-British Baptist who escaped death by firing squad in her home country three years ago is once again confronting the authorities to speak out against horrific human-rights abuses.

  10/14/2010 - By Administrator

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  New polls show rising support for gay marriage, little change on abortion

  Abortion and gay rights appear to be decoupling as important dividing lines among Americans when it comes to social issues, according to recent surveys on values, faith and public life.

  10/14/2010 - By Administrator

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  Buckner seeks adoptive families for Russian boys

  Buckner International is seeking adoptive families for eight Russian boys.“Unfortunately, boys stay on the adoption waiting list longer than girls do,” said Cindy Davison, marketing director for Dillon International, affiliated with Buckner.

  10/13/2010 - By admin

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  Critics still waiting for action from faith-based office

  Six months after advisers turned in 164 pages of recommendations to the White House’s faith-based office, thorny church-state questions remain unanswered and some critics say the office has been used to push the president’s health care reform.

  10/13/2010 - By admin

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  Supreme Court torn on free speech rights, private funeral rites

  The last rites of a slain Marine clashed with a small church’s right to preach its anti-gay gospel in oral arguments heard before the U.S. Supreme Court.

  10/13/2010 - By admin

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  Wayland students, employees demonstrate degree of difference

  About 150 students, faculty and staff from Wayland Baptist University dedicated a recent Saturday morning to serve their community for the fifth annual Degree of Difference Day in Plainview.

  10/13/2010 - By admin

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  BRIC nations may help clarify direction of global Christian growth

  Four emerging economic powerhouses popularly known as BRIC—Brazil, Russia, India and China—may provide building blocks for understanding developments in 21st century global Christianity, missions expert Philip Jenkins told a Baylor University symposium.

  10/12/2010 - By Administrator

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  Rise of Hispanic evangelicals said influencing immigration debate

  The immigration debate has drawn Latinos into the public square more fully than ever before — and Hispanic Protestants in particular — Gabriel Salguero, a noted Latino evangelical author and thinker, recently told an audience at Mercer University.

  10/12/2010 - By Administrator

• Group urges IRS to probe church; calls for end to National Day of Prayer

  A church-state watchdog group says the Internal Revenue Service should investigate whether a New York church violated federal tax law by endorsing a Democrat running for governor.

  10/11/2010 - By Administrator

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  Who are Evangelicals?

  When Billy Graham, Jim Wallis, Rick Warren,  Al Mohler and Brian McLaren can all be called “evangelical,” some observers wonder if the term has lost its meaning.

  10/08/2010 - By admin

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  Heaven’s Rain tells true story of sin, pain and forgiveness

  A son of Southern Baptist missionaries who survived the home-invasion murder of his parents in 1979 and later went on to advocate for victims’ rights as Oklahoma’s youngest-ever state senator brings his story to the big screen in a newly released independent film titled Heaven’s Rain.

  10/07/2010 - By admin

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  Donated facility a victory for two Tyler congregations

  Park Heights Baptist Church in Tyler celebrated its 70th anniversary. And in the same service, the Anglo church turned the deed to its property over to Higher Heights Baptist Church, a predominantly African-American congregation.

  10/07/2010 - By admin