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  • Bans on travel to Miss., N.C., called 'ridiculous'
    by David Roach, posted Friday, April 08, 2016 (8 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- At least nine U.S. cities and five states have banned non-essential travel by government employees to North Carolina, Mississippi or both, claiming religious liberty bills adopted there discriminate against homosexual and transgendered persons.

    A Mississippi pastor told Baptist Press he's proud of his state legislature's courage and confused by the seeming hypocrisy of some critics. Pastors in Vermont and Washington -- two states to enact bans -- said such actions are a predictable outworking of the secular worldview that dominates their local cultures. Read More

  • Miss. adopts religious freedom bill
    by David Roach, posted Tuesday, April 05, 2016 (8 years ago)

    JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has signed into law a bill safeguarding the religious liberty of individuals and organizations who refuse to participate in same-sex weddings or gender identity transitions.

    Bryant, a Republican, announced today (April 5) via Twitter that he signed House Bill 1523 -- the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act. Read More

  • 2000 BF&M slated for Miss. Baptists' 2016 meeting
    by William H. Perkins Jr./Mississippi Baptist Record, posted Tuesday, December 01, 2015 (8 years ago)

    Photo by William H. Perkins Jr.
    JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Messengers to the Mississippi Baptist Convention's 2015 annual meeting heard the first reading of a proposed constitutional amendment relating to the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message to be voted on at the convention's 2016 annual meeting.

    Messengers also elected a new president and approved a 2016 Cooperative Program budget of over $31.5 million. Read More

  • Floyd, National Baptists, to form study group
    by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, November 09, 2015 (8 years ago)

    Photo by Diana Chandler
    JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd and National Baptist Convention President Jerry Young have agreed to appoint a joint study group and perhaps a steering committee to continue dialogue on racial healing among Christians and ultimately across the nation.

    The two leaders of the largest Baptist groups in the U.S. announced their decision at the end of the panel discussion ... Read More

  • Racism Satan's tool, Floyd tells Baptists
    by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, November 05, 2015 (8 years ago)

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    JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Racism is from Satan and his demonic forces, and the only hope for its defeat is the church of Jesus Christ united across societal divisions, Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd told a culturally diverse group of Baptists in Mississippi Nov. 4.

    "I believe that the issue of racism is from Satan and the demonic forces of hell," Floyd told hundreds gathered at Mission .... Read More

  • Race relations summit speakers announced
    by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, October 30, 2015 (8 years ago)

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    JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Leading pastors from the National Baptist Convention USA and the Southern Baptist Convention -- the nation's two largest Baptist denominations -- will gather for a Nov. 4 racial reconciliation celebration in Jackson, Miss.

    The nonprofit racial reconciliation group Mission Mississippi will host the 22 pastors at "A National Conversation on Race in America" from 8:30-11 a.m. at the Jackson Convention Complex. Read More

  • Miss. event to focus on racial unity
    by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, October 26, 2015 (8 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- God's church must take the lead in achieving racial unity as the United States deals with a deepening crisis of racially polarizing events, Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd has said in advance of a Nov. 4 racial reconciliation celebration in Jackson, Miss.

    Floyd will join Jerry Young, president of the predominantly black National Baptist Convention USA, as a speaker at "A National Conversation on Race in America," Mission Mississippi's annual ... Read More

  • Fate of abortion clinics awaits high court

    by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, October 13, 2015 (8 years ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP) -- The fate of multiple abortion clinics awaits the consideration of the U.S. Supreme Court.

    The high court will have the opportunity to decide this term, which opened Oct. 5, whether state governments may enact rules that result in shutting down most abortion clinics or even the only one remaining in the state. In addition to abortion, the justices also will consider such issues as the death penalty and affirmative ... Read More

  • In Miss., worship & dialogue bridge racial lines
    by William H. Perkins Jr./Mississippi Baptist Record, posted Friday, September 25, 2015 (8 years ago)

    Photo by William H. Perkins Jr.
    JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Baptists in Mississippi stepped to the fore in worship and dialogue across racial lines this summer.

    First Baptist Church in Jackson hosted "Stronger Together – A Night of Unity" Aug. 25 to honor the witness of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., where a gunman killed the pastor and eight others at an evening Bible study in mid-June. Read More