NASHVILLE — The Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Executive Committee approved a 2009–2010 Cooperative Program (CP) Allocation Budget of $204,385,592 for recommendation to the SBC during
ATLANTA — The national Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) announced a 20 percent spending reduction for the next 19 months as part of a financial contingency
It was standing room only Feb. 24 in the Pelham Civic Center’s Bronze Room as Gov. Bob Riley and other state and local officials rallied
More than 300 people gathered Feb. 16 at Bethel Baptist Church, Moody, to stand against gambling in St. Clair County. Alabama Baptist leaders organized the
For the second straight year, Rep. Artis McCampbell, D-Linden, and Sen. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, are asking state legislators to significantly expand electronic bingo gambling in
► In 1994, the state Supreme Court held that bingo is a form of lottery and thus illegal except where expressly authorized by a constitutional
Despite the nation’s financial upheaval, “the generosity of countless numbers of men and women in the pews of our churches” is evident, leaders of the
Electronic bingo gambling has infiltrated Alabama, and some say the attorney general is to blame for the recent explosion of machines and facilities across the
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