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State Dept. highlights religious violations
March 18 2010 by Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service
The State Department issued its annual human rights report March 11, noting religious freedom violations in countries ranging from China to Iraq to Saudi Arabia. The report on 194 countries called 2009 “a year in which ethnic, racial, and religious tensions led to violent conflicts and serious human rights violations.” The State Department said “no genuine freedom of religion” exist...
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In Mumbai, keyboard becomes gospel catalyst
March 18 2010 by Tess Rivers, Baptist Press
MUMBAI, India — “I’ve rarely found anyone who said they didn’t want to learn the piano,” the seminary music professor said after arriving in Mumbai, India. Dorothy Atcheson*, who teaches at one of the Southern Baptist Convention’s six seminaries, led a team of six women into Mumbai’s communities and slums to teach keyboarding and, in the process, share the gospel. ...
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Snow pushes Dobson church to webcast service
March 17 2010 by Dianna L. Cagle, BR Assistant Managing Editor
With six-year-old Daniel belting out a solo, and 10- and 12-year-old sisters, Lydia and Samantha working the technology, a church in Dobson aired its service online during inclement weather Jan. 31. “We had a great day,” said Andy Atkins, pastor of Fairview Baptist Church. “It blew us away.” Expecting 10 to 15 people to log in to view the service, the church instead had 65. “We ...
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Christ-followers emerge from Mormon area
March 17 2010 by Adam Miller, Baptist Press
PROVO, Utah — Drive an hour south of Salt Lake City down Interstate 5 and you enter a different world, says North American Mission Board missionary Mickie Kelly. “People think I’m exaggerating when I tell them the kinds of things that go on here,” said Kelly, a church planter in Payson, Utah, near Provo. “The spi...
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11th-hour salvation places judge in heaven
March 17 2010 by David Ettinger, Baptist Press
ORLANDO, Fla. — It’s a salvation story of epic 11th-hour proportions. Its cast includes a respected judge, a wife desperate to see her husband come to faith in Jesus Christ and a Southern Baptist pastor who spoke the right words at just right time. Bob Wattles of Orlando, Fla., was a longtime Orange County circuit judge who won both praise and criticism for his rulings but was always resp...
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In all the dialog about the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force’s study of processes in Southern Baptist life as it seeks efficiencies to get more money “to the nations,” the single most arresting fact that committee members quoted was that two-thirds of missions money and personnel allocated through the North American Mission Board was deployed in the old south states. I still remembe...
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