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The Haitian lawyer for 10 U.S. Baptists charged with child kidnapping tried to bribe the missionaries’ way out of jail and has been fired, the attorney who hired him said Saturday night.
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CLINTON, Ky. — The congregation of a southwestern Kentucky church are searching for answers after a fire destroyed their church.Authorities said the Baltimore Missionary Baptist Church in eastern Hic…
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With Super Bowl XLIV only a few days away, the lights are on early here at the Indianapolis Colts’ hotel conference room, with more than a half dozen coaches huddled together, reports Baptist Press.
But the Colts’ coaches, including head man Jim Caldwell, weren’t working on a secret plan to slow down the high flying New Orleans Saints.
Rather, it was the coaches’ weekly Bible study, and not even a chance for NFL supremacy was going to keep them from meeting.
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Charity head from Idaho had debt problems and faced legal action Close AFP / Laura Silsby, head of an Idaho-based charity called New Life Children’s Refuge, was to face trial in the US over an alleged £26,000 debt The leader of the Baptist missionaries
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With the controversy surrounding the American Christian team in Haiti, several large Baptist bodies have distanced themselves from the group by clarifying that they are not members of their organization.
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(AP) – NIXA, Mo. – Nixa police are investigating vandalism at the Calvary Baptist Church in Nixa that did an estimated $10,000 damage. Pastor Carl Curtis says the vandals entered the church sometime during the weekend and trashed the two-story building. The damage includes holes in drywall and ceiling, broken windows and spray paint on the walls. The Springfield…
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Under pressure from Islamist groups, authorities ordered Christian Baptist Church to cease services. Officials abruptly closed the Huria Christian Protestant Batak Church after delaying a building permit for four years.
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As a young black girl growing up in the Deep South in the 1930s and ’40s, Alzina Booker learned many lessons on the importance of family, faith and standing up to racism. Her father, Elmo, was a Baptist pastor who opened an elementary school for black children who otherwise wouldn’t have received an education in Hammond, La. The family was poor, but Elmo put together enough money to buy a bus for the older children so they could get to a high school 5 miles away without having to walk. Alzina and her siblings would see the white kids’ bus pass them by. Sometimes, the white children would spit and utter slurs. She clung to her family, and her parents taught her to cling to her church. Even…
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The ten American Baptists who tried to take 33 Haitian children across the border to the Dominican Republic were charged Thursday with abduction and criminal association.
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CALLEBAS, Haiti – Parents in this struggling village near Haiti’s capital said Wednesday they willingly handed their children to American missionaries who showed up in a bus promising to give them a better life – contradicting claims by the Baptist group’s leader…
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On a hot afternoon in a crowded, makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince, Jean Junior Cineas sits under a tarp suspended by a broomstick. He shares his faith with five Haitians left homeless after the Jan. 12 earthquake rocked their island nation. Soon, all five pray to receive Christ as their Savior, reports Baptist Press.
The irony: Cineas is the son of a voodoo priest.
“It gives me joy to [share Christ],” Cineas says as he moves through the rows of tents. “I love to do that. It is my life.”… >>
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(AP) – CALLEBAS, Haiti – Parents in this struggling village above Haiti’s capital said Wednesday they willingly handed their children to American missionaries who showed up in a bus promising to give them a better life-contradicting claims by the Baptist group’s leader that the children came from orphanages and distant relatives. The 10 Baptists, most from Idaho, were arrested last week trying to take 33 Haitian children across the border into the Dominican Republic without the required documents, according to outraged Haitian officials, who have called them child traffickers. An investigating…
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(1/31/2010) Parents in this struggling village above Haiti's capital said Wednesday they willingly handed their children to American missionaries who showed up in a bus promising to give them a bett…
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AP – The largest state Baptist group in the nation wants Christ's message of hope heard in every home in Texas — about 9 million of them — by Easter.
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A 10-member Baptist team being detained in Haiti remained in custody as of mid-afternoon Feb. 2. The group was accused of human trafficking as they tried to help 30 orphans out of the country.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — A Haitian judge on Tuesday questioned a group of U.S. Baptist missionaries arrested trying to leave Haiti with a busload of children they gathered from the disaster zone.
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Reuters – Five of the 10 American Baptist missionaries accused of illegally trying to take children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti left their jail cells temporarily to plead their case to a judge on Tuesday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti’s prime minister said Monday it’s clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his country without permission “knew what they were doing was wrong.” NewsOK Related Articles Bethany resident among Haiti earthquake victims 02/02/2010 A Bethany man is among United Nations workers to die in the Haiti earthquake. The death of Bhojraj “Sudesh” Luchmun, 45, was…
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Ten American Baptists who tried to leave Haiti with 33 destitute children were stuck in legal limbo Monday, with Haitian and U.S. officials negotiating over whether the church members should be prosecuted in the United States.