The BPFNA board has issued a statement that "urges people of faith to support our Muslim brothers and sisters in this time of increased Islamophobia and anti-Muslim behavior."
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Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, a BPFNA Partner Congregation in Raleigh, NC, will host a reading of the Qur'an and a time of prayer on Saturday, September 11, from 9 to 11 a.m. The text will be read in Arabic and English.
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Hector Villanueva, a pastor in the Hispanic Network of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, recently applied for US citizen. As a result of the required background check, Villanueva was arrested Thursday, August 19, and now faces deportation based on a 15-year-old worthless check conviction for which he served his sentence.
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Rev. Edgar Palacios says, "Christians, God commands us to love one another, and God also calls us to support immigration reform in the United States which would resolve a human and moral crisis." Palacios is Associate Pastor of Christian Education at Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, DC.
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A progressive Baptist group released a statement Aug. 10 praising a federal judge for upholding both marriage equality and religious freedom by declaring a California ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. But a conservative Southern Baptist seminary president said that, while US District Judge Vaughn Walker’s Aug. 4 ruling paid legal lip service to religious freedom, it may ultimately undermine the freedom of Christians who oppose gay rights.
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Hector Villanueva, a pastor in the Hispanic Network of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, recently applied for US citizen. As a result of the required background check, Villanueva was arrested Thursday, August 19, and now faces deportation based on a 15-year-old worthless check conviction for which he served his sentence.
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Baptist groups in North America and Europe are donating money to assist flood victims in Pakistan. International Ministries of American Baptist Churches USA, Baptist World Aid and Canadian Baptist Ministries are among those already channeling funds to relief efforts.
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Three youth and an adult from Pullen Memorial Baptist Church led a protest at the August 10 meeting of Wake County School Board in Raleigh, NC. At issue is the discontinuation of a decades-old busing policy that protesters say will resegregate schools based on socio-economic status.
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The congregation of Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC (a BPFNA Partner Congregation), welcomed a group of anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Islam protesters to its worship service July 18 -- even as a nearby conservative church shunned the group.
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Tony and Peggy Campolo spoke in a panel discussion titled “Christians, the Church and Sexual Orientation: Advancing the Conversation” today with members of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America (BPFNA). It was the second day of the BPFNA’s summer conference, held this year at Keuka College in upper New York state.
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Truth commissions have been used to report on human rights abuses and systemic injustices and to foster justice and healing for a whole society. Meeting at New York City's Riverside Church, this Truth Commission sought to bring to light the issues facing soldiers who find themselves in opposition to a specific war instead of "war in any form" as required in current regulations. Founding director Ken Sehested represented BPFNA and wrote this op-ed piece for the online version of the Washington Post.
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BPFNA has adopted this statement to call congregations and individuals to faithfully consider and respond to the Iraq war.
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