National News

DALLAS — Randel Everett, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Newport News, Va., was elected executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT)

BUENA PARK, Calif. — The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has opened an inquiry into an Aug. 11, 2007, “personal endorsement” of presidential candidate Mike Huckabee

Baptist leaders in Vancouver, British Columbia, are planning outreach efforts surrounding the 2010 Winter Olympics that they hope will lead to additional churches in the

Don Piper died on a bridge called Trinity in January 1989. But in January 2008, Piper stood before the congregation of Parker Memorial Baptist Church,

NASHVILLE — Year-to-date contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Cooperative Program (CP) are .52 percent ahead of the same timeframe in January 2007, according

Evangelist Billy Graham continues to recover from a surgical procedure done Feb. 13, according to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s Web site. The elective procedure