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LeRoy Cleveland, 88, of Spartanburg, a retired Baptist pastor who served his last church for 31 years, died March 8, 2008.... Continue Reading »

Roy Forrest, 78, of Taylors, a long-serving pastor and consultant for the Southern Baptist Convention, died Feb. 10, 2008, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.... Continue Reading »

George E. Turbeville, 85, of Columbia, a pastor and former president of the South Carolina Baptist Pastor's Conference, active in the work of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, died Feb. 19, 2008.... Continue Reading »

Martha Leathers Wennerberg of DeFuniak Springs, Fla., a South Carolina native who held both state and national WMU offices, died March 5, 2008, after a long battle with breast cancer.... Continue Reading »

"Don't make that one," our daughter Gaye said. "No one likes it.” We were discussing the dessert cake I would make for visitors to our house after we had eaten dinner at a restaurant. "Mrs. Hammond likes it," I... Continue Reading »

John Arthur, 64, pastor for the last 44 years of Eureka First Baptist Church, a rural community 12 miles southeast of Edgefield, believes pastors who have served one church for periods of time measured not in years, but decades,... Continue Reading »

More than one in every 100 American adults are in jail or prison, according to a recent study by the Pew Center for the States, which also found that about half of released inmates return to jail or prison... Continue Reading »

Jonathan Merritt, a 25-year-old student at Southeastern Baptist Seminary, captured widespread media attention March 10 in releasing a statement titled ?A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change.?... Continue Reading »

Southern Baptists make up nearly 7 percent of the United States adult population, according to a new Pew study that also shows evangelicals outnumbering mainline church members and Catholics.... Continue Reading »

With increased frequency, the Chinese government is persecuting house churches and banishing foreign Christians from the country, presumably to squelch voices who might draw attention to the plight of religious minorities in the nation surrounding the Beijing Olympics.... Continue Reading »

Ergun Caner and Dinesh D"Souza will open the 2008 Christian Worldview Week at North Greenville University on Monday, March 17. The week will also feature Frank Reich, Ron Marks and worship leader Calvin Hunt.... Continue Reading »

Persecution against house churches in China last year was up 30.4 percent from 2006, and the total number of people persecuted was up 18.5 percent, according to a report by China Aid Association.... Continue Reading »