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Alabama native Bobby Welch elected SBC president

June 24, 2004

Alabama native Bobby Welch, known for his enthusiastic zeal for evangelism, won the first contested Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) presidential election in a decade June

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BGCT employees to drop NAMB affiliation

June 24, 2004

DALLAS — All five Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT) employees with North American Mission Board (NAMB) appointments will end ties with the Southern Baptist

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Halted baptisms in Virginia cause outrage

June 24, 2004

RICHMOND, Va. — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) rarely takes up for Christians. But even the ACLU cried foul over an incident at a

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Graham archives spared in Wheaton College fire

June 24, 2004

WHEATON, Ill. — The archives of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College were spared when a fire started on the roof of the center’s

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Russians embrace Empowering Kingdom Growth

June 24, 2004

NASHVILLE — Empowering Kingdom Growth (EKG) is spreading across the formerly closed nation of the Russian Federation. EKG, the emphasis that began in the South

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Shea released from North Carolina hospital

June 24, 2004

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — George Beverly Shea, known widely as the mainstay gospel singer at Billy Graham evangelistic crusades for more than 60 years, was released

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Faith motivates Miss Alabama as she prepares to compete in Miss America

June 22, 2004

Deidre Downs planned on attending medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham this fall but she traded in books for a crown when

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Southern Baptists gather in Greece to point people to ‘Unknown God’

June 17, 2004

The first Olympic Games in Greece in 776 b.c. were staged to honor Zeus. In 2004, Southern Baptists will be in Greece to point people

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