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WASHINGTON (BP)--Officials with the Cottonwood Christian Center in Los Alamitos, Calif. are promising a court battle after the city council in nearby Cypress decided not only to squash the center's plans for a religious campus, but took a major step to seize the center's 18-acre tract of land through eminent…
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Most three-year-olds are just learning to put together sentences. When master of divinity student Amy Nobles was three, she had already learned to play the notes for Jesus Loves Me on the piano. Today her desire to make God known to all people spurs her on to…
BETHLEHEM (BP)--About 200 Palestinian fighters April 3 gunned their way into Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, The Jerusalem Post reported April 4. The ancient church is built over the site held by tradition to be Jesus' birthplace. Other news sources estimated…
GARLAND, Texas (BP)--Shortly after intruders nabbed Gene and Jean Phillips at their missionary residence in Africa, Christians around the world began praying for the veteran Southern Baptist missionary couple, then living in the small country of Lesotho.
AMMAN, Jordan (BP)--Southeastern Seminary missionary Brent Brown approached the village mosque hesitantly, unsure about the invitation from the village Muslim leader to talk openly about his Christian faith inside a mosque to a crowd of over 200 Muslims.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (BP)--The son of two Southern Baptists working in Pakistan was among those seriously wounded when an unidentified attacker hurled several hand grenades into the Protestant International Church during a March 17 worship service. Five worshippers, including two Americans, were killed and more than 40 were injured.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The former pastor of the evangelical Christian church said he believes the congregation was targeted for attack by Islamic militants.
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--The name of one unreached people group in West Africa literally means "abandoned by God."
JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--The air is thick and steamy inside the walls of the Afghanistan hospital and with temperatures of 115 degrees and more burning up the air outside, the smells of sweat, urine and death hang heavy around the emaciated and hurting children quietly suffering in the children's ward. There…
PARIS (BP)--A controversial new law on religion in France may not be the threat to religious liberty some critics had feared, Baptist and evangelical church leaders here say.
