Cuban court acquits pastor, assesses new charges
January 11, 2007
HAVANA -— A court in Havana has found Cuban pastor Carlos Lamelas not guilty of "trafficking in human beings" but convicted him on previously unannounced
Hindu extremists beat Christian converts in India
January 11, 2007
BANGALORE, India — A group of Hindu extremists in India’s southern state of Karnataka have tortured two young women and a minor who converted to
Tuscaloosa-area couple finds ministry opportunity as foster parents of six
January 11, 2007
Nearly 12 years had passed since Marty and Jackie Montgomery had been married, and still they had no children. Since the couple did not feel
Alabama Baptist teams to work alongside locals in poor areas
January 4, 2007
In the rolling hills and mountains surrounding Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan, coffee farmers with a keen eye can spot a spare square foot a mile away.
110th Congress features Baptists, notable religious firsts
January 4, 2007
Baptists of all stripes are featured prominently in leadership of the 110th Congress, which itself features some religious firsts. As both chambers pass from Republican
Kidnappers murder Iraqi church elder in Mosul
January 4, 2007
MOSUL, Iraq — Grieving Christians in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul completed three days of mourning for a murdered Presbyterian church elder Dec. 3, 2006,
‘Awesome God’ OK in talent show, judge rules
January 4, 2007
TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey school district violated the constitutional rights of a second-grade student in 2005 when it prevented her from performing the
BGCT to give probe results to law enforcement
January 4, 2007
DALLAS — Officials with the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT) will give law-enforcement agencies the documents produced by an independent investigation that revealed financial
