American news agency (2014-)
Baptist News Global is a Baptist news agency. It is a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship partner.[1]
History
It was founded in 2014 as a merger of Associated Baptist Press (ABP) and the Religious Herald. [2][3]
The Herald was founded in 1828 by the Baptist General Association of Virginia.[4] Associated Baptist Press was founded by Baptist journalists as an autonomous self-supporting entity in 1990, shortly after the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship split from the Southern Baptist Convention.
References
- ^ "Partner Directory". Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
- ^ Hastey, Stan (1993). "The History of the Associated Baptist Press". In Shurden, Walter B. (ed.). The Struggle for the Soul of the SBC: Moderate Responses to the Fundamentalist Movement. Mercer University Press. pp. 169–185. ISBN 978-0-86554-424-6.
- ^ "About Us". Associated Baptist Press. July 14, 2010. Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ^ "About Us". Baptist News Global. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
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