Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, will be delivering a sermon entitled, “If and When God Will Bless America,” Sunday morning, July 6, at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tenn. Land was featured in Time magazine as one of “The Twenty-five Most Influential Evangelicals in America” in …

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.— Over half of all Americans (52%) canvassed disagreed with the statement, “I am concerned that at times Christians are too involved in politics,” according to a survey conducted through a joint project of LifeWay Research and the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. When researchers asked those who attend religious services …

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The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission today hailed congressional passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which bans employers and health insurance providers from discriminating against individuals and families based on their genetic information. The House passed the legislation yesterday by a vote of 414-1 following the Senate’s 95-0 approval April …

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Nashville, Tenn.—Dr. Richard Land, president of The Southern Baptist’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, launches a new values emphasis to reach out to “values voters” this election season and beyond. The initiative includes two Web sites: a re-launch of iVoteValues.com and the newly developed iLiveValues.com. iVoteValues.com encourages Christians to register to vote, educate themselves about …

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Washington—Bob Fu, president of the “China Aid Association”:http://chinaaid.org/about/bob-fus-story/, will be presented with the 2007 John Leland Religious Liberty Award “for courageously defending the right of all people to exercise freely their religious faith” Feb. 7 at the Library of Congress. The award, which recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the cause of …

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WASHINGTON– Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, made the following statement regarding tomorrow’s anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 _Roe v. Wade_ opinion that effectively legalized abortion: “America has reached a gruesome milestone the pro-life movement hoped and prayed fervently would never arrive–35 years of the wholesale slaughter …

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission joins all Americans in commemorating Religious Freedom Day. The Commission is mindful of the great sacrifices made by men and women of faith in the centuries past to secure this universal right for all people. We urge all Americans to celebrate the freedom for religion …

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