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By BWA Communications
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Friday, September 30, 2011 |
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CAP-HAITIAN, Haiti -- The Haitian Baptist leader who was kidnapped early Sept. 29 was released unharmed later that day without a ransom payment, the Baptist World Alliance reported Sept. 30.
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By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Friday, September 30, 2011 |
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The White House condemned Sept. 29 the conviction of a pastor sentenced to death for converting from Islam to Christianity in Iran. Youcef Nadarkhani was tried and convicted of apostasy in 2010. After refusing to recant, a court sentenced him Sept. 28 to death by hanging.
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By Al Webb, Religion News Service
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Thursday, September 29, 2011 |
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Some British Christians are incensed after the state-funded BBC decided to jettison the terms B.C. and A.D. in favor of B.C.E. and C.E. in historical date references.
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By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 |
The principal of the Baptist Theological Seminary of Zimbabwe -- who has taught at Baptist divinity schools in Virginia and North Carolina -- has been fired for refusing to accept changes made to the school’s governing documents including adherence to a statement that forbids women from serving as pastors.
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By ABP staff
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 |
The head of the Baptist World Alliance has sent a letter of solidarity to Baptists in Norway in response to recent mass killings in that country that claimed at least 76 lives.
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By Francis X. Rocca, Religion News Service
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 |
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When China’s state-run Catholic Church ordained a new bishop for the Diocese of Shantou July 14 without the Vatican’s approval, it represented the latest step back from years of progress in a complex relationship. |
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By Jim White. Editor
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Friday, July 15, 2011 |
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The China Christian Council -- the country’s official Protestant organization of churches -- is hosting a Bible exhibition in four cities across the United States this fall, beginning Sept. 28 at the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church in Washington, D.C.
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By Jim White, Editor
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Friday, July 15, 2011 |
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At the appointed time, they entered: the ministers wearing clerical vestments and the robed choir singing “The Lord is in his holy temple.” The congregation rose with hymnals in hand. Although this might have taken place in any number of Baptist churches across the country, it happened in Shanghai, China.
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