SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Assemblies of God, a prominent Pentecostal denomination, has reiterated its “zero tolerance” policy concerning ministers found guilty of sexual contact with
BATON ROUGE, La. — The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the state of Louisiana, saying its sexual abstinence program is unconstitutional because some of
A bill that protects an 81-year-old tax break for clergy housing has passed both houses of Congress and is awaiting President Bush’s signature. The
Dissatisfied with the direction their 168-year-old convention has taken in recent years, several hundred Missouri Baptists broke away from the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) and
MERIDIAN, Miss. — Selma native Georgia Mae Ogburn, an emeritus Southern Baptist missionary to Chile, died April 14 at age 91. Appointed by the Foreign
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — The United Methodist Church for the first time has two women serving in the two highest leadership posts, with Illinois Bishop Sharon
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A U.S. District Court judge ruled that school officials were justified in forbidding a first-grade girl from giving her classmates
DALLAS — “It is not enough to say we believe every word of the Bible to be true to be a Baptist,” according to Jim
