RSS feed for Baptist Press (BPNews) Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00-0500 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--In November 1977 a group of conservative Christian leaders signed a full-page advertisement in The New York Times expressing their concern over international negotiations surrounding the permanent boundaries of Israel and the apparent pro-Arab tilt of American foreign policy.       To the evangelical leaders, among them the famed pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, W.A. Criswell, all of the land west of the Jordan was Israel's. The land was theirs by "divine right," not because they had seized it in the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars. God had promised the land to the people of Israel.       The statement was not Criswell's first in support for Israel, and it would not be his last. In 1988, he was honored by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin for his steadfast support of the Jewish people. Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00-0500 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A team of Southern Baptists is on the ground in Bangkok, Thailand, to help national believers from Myanmar deal with the mounting crisis in their country after a May 3 cyclone left 62,000 people dead or missing and drove perhaps 1 million people from their homes. Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00-0500 DENVER (BP)--Colorado, the first state that decriminalized abortion, could strike at the heart of Roe v. Wade this fall if voters adopt a proposed constitutional amendment that gives protections to people from the moment of conception. Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00-0500 CHARLESTON, W.Va. (BP)--Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama handily among the party's weekly churchgoers in West Virginia May 13 according to exit polls, but also won in most other categories -- including among non-churchgoers -- as she enjoyed a blowout victory in the state. Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00-0500 Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00-0500 Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00-0500 Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00-0500 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Every Sunday School leader and worker can do a better job. Even though most of them would acknowledge that in reality, it is still difficult to get Sunday School teachers to attend training.