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Missouri Baptist pastors take stand for life at inaugural Missouri Prayer Breakfast

Several Missouri Baptist pastors attended the inaugural Missouri Prayer Breakfast on Capitol Hill, Sept. 16, where Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., unveiled a new Declaration of Life.
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ERLC presents religious liberty award to daughter of freed pastor Ezra Jin

When Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) trustees named Grace Jin Drexel the recipient of the John Leland Religious Liberty Award, her father, Pastor Ezra Jin Mingra, was imprisoned in China for his faith.
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Evan Lenow named candidate for ERLC presidency

The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s presidential search team has announced Mississippi College academic administrator and longtime ERLC research fellow Evan Lenow as its candidate to lead the entity.
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Supreme Court declines McRaney case, ending lawsuit against NAMB

The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to hear a years-long case brought by former Baptist state convention executive director Will McRaney against the North American Mission Board, upholding an appeals court’s decision to dismiss and essentially closing out the case.
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Federal investigation underway into Minnesota church protest

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says she has spoken to a Minnesota pastor following a disruption by protestors during Cities Church’s morning worship service Jan. 18.
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ERLC releases 2025 public policy agenda

The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) announced the organization’s policy priorities for the upcoming year through the entity’s annual federal public policy agenda, released Thursday (Jan. 16).
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New Illinois abortion laws could be trouble for churches, ministries

The Illinois General Assembly continues to find new ways to further enshrine abortion into law. Within the last month, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed one bill requiring insurance companies to provide full coverage for abortions and another making abortions a protected human rights issue. The actions came just ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago where the party emphasized its commitment to “reproductive rights” and a mobile Planned Parenthood unit performed vasectomies and provided abortion services nearby.
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Senate nixes religious liberty amendments, approves same-sex marriage

The U.S. Senate voted to enshrine same-sex marriage as the law Tuesday (Nov. 29) while rejecting efforts to strengthen religious freedom protections in the proposal.
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Blunt votes ‘yes,’ Hawley ‘no,’ on same-sex marriage bill

United States Senators from Missouri were divided, Nov. 16, about whether the lawmaking body should move forward with the so-called "Respect for Marriage Act." Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) voted against moving forward with the bill. But Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who leaves office in January, voted to support the legislation – contrary to a letter from Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) leaders calling him to oppose the bill.
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Brent Leatherwood elected ERLC president

Brent Leatherwood has been elected to fill the role as the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission by the organization’s trustees. 
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Exclusive: Mohler places ‘nationalism’ in its biblical context

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler has been a defender of nationhood – as compatible with Christian theology – which he will underscore as one of six keynote speakers at the National Conservatism Conference, Sept.11-13, in Miami. His announced topic: “‘Your God Will Have Been Supplanted by an Idol’: The Dangerous Illusion of a ‘Secular’ State.”
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Southern Baptist messengers approve Sexual Abuse Task Force recommendations

Southern Baptists responded with an overwhelming majority in favor of adopting the two recommendations presented by the Sexual Abuse Task Force presented June 14 at the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting.

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