Growing number of churches offer online giving
April 14, 2011
NASHVILLE — As consumers in the United States shift increasingly to online banking and bill payment, their electronic financial habits are spilling over into the
No Saturdays off for Seventh-day Adventist mailman
April 14, 2011
ST. LOUIS — Neither snow nor rain nor Saturday Sabbaths should keep a Missouri mailman from his appointed rounds, a federal appeals court has ruled.
U.S. ambassador’s ‘faith’ writings causing ‘friction’
April 14, 2011
WASHINGTON — The U.S. ambassador to Malta, who helped rally Catholic support for President Obama’s 2008 campaign, has spent “considerable time” writing on topics beyond
Americans asked to fast to protest budget cuts
April 14, 2011
A diverse coalition of religious leaders from Bread for the World, World Vision, Mercy Corps, Sojourners, the ONE Campaign and the Alliance to End Hunger
American Indian-focused event aims to remove barriers
April 14, 2011
American Indians from 15 states and First Nations people from three Canadian provinces participated in The Gathering, a March 2–4 conference in Oklahoma City aimed
Relief efforts still critical in Japan
April 14, 2011
Clean drinking water, food and assistance with cleanup operations are the most critical needs among the citizens of Japan, reports Alabama Baptist disaster relief representative
Palestinian Intifada Facebook page shut down
April 14, 2011
Palo Alto, Calif. — Facebook shut down a “Third Palestinian Intifada” page and similar groups, prompted by complaints from Jewish groups that the content had
Baptists deliver clean water to Myanmar earthquake victims
April 14, 2011
A three-day Baptist meeting in eastern Myanmar turned fatal March 24 when an earthquake struck near the Laos and Thailand border. Twenty-three people were killed
