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(Updated 05/23/2008)

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Jeffery Ginn selected as SBCV's exec

RICHMOND, Va. - The executive board of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia (SBCV) has selected a Richmond-area pastor, Jeffery Ginn, as the state convention's new executive director-treasurer, effective June 2.

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Texas court rules against seizure of polygamist sect's children

SAN ANGELO, Texas - The state of Texas had no right to remove more than 460 children from their polygamist parents, a state appeals court ruled May 22.

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Steven Curtis Chapman's daughter killed

FRANKLIN, Tenn. - Maria Sue, the 5-year-old daughter of Christian musician Steven Curtis Chapman, died May 21 after she was struck by an SUV driven by her teenage brother in the family's driveway south of Nashville, Tenn.

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BWA, Samaritan's Purse make inroads to assist storm survivors

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Baptist World Aid (BWAid), the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance, is working through six relief camps in cyclone-devastated Burma (also known as Myanmar), while a United States-based organization readies an airlift to earthquake-shocked China.

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Board lays groundwork for important fall session

If the September board of directors meeting codifies changes in the Baptist State Convention (BSC), the May meeting will have laid the groundwork.

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