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JENA, La. (BP)--"You don't have to explain to the nation where Jena is," said Dominick DiCarlo Jr., pastor of the Louisiana town's First Baptist Church.       Last year, Jena High School became a flash point for racial tensions that quickly made national headlines.       During the most tension-filled days, light- and dark-skinned people who previously had discussed the merits of various fishing tackle, laundry powder and more at Wal-Mart -- as folks in the South tend to do -- found themselves avoiding each other, looking away as their carts passed.       "What God does in Jena becomes the focus of a nation unlike any other town," DiCarlo said.       Jena's Christians now hope the nation sees a community in revival.       "If revival occurred in some little village, some little community that has no national history or memory, a nation would not take notice of it, but they'll take notice of this," DiCarlo said, "and I think that may be one of the reasons God chose Jena."       In what has become a true "protracted meeting," a four-day revival that began Feb. 17 at Midway Baptist Church in Jena now has moved into its fourth week and into at least eight churches.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Christian conservatives have a very good chance of seeing Roe v. Wade overturned if a pro-life president wins the White House this fall, two attorneys prominent in pro-family legal battles said March 10.

CHICAGO (BP)--At least one in four teenage girls in the United States has a sexually transmitted disease, amounting to 3.2 million youth, according to a first of its kind study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released March 11.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (BP)--Sanyati Baptist Hospital in Zimbabwe -- a high-profile ministry of Southern Baptist international missions since the 1950s -- has been laboring under enormous pressure since the economy of the African country went into a tailspin in 2000.

JENA, La. (BP)--The revival that started at Midway Baptist Church back on Feb. 17 is still going -- only now with a new title: God's Revival.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--There is one irreducible law of church growth: start new units. That is, start new groups, new classes, new ministry teams, new missions, new churches.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--With increased frequency, the Chinese government is persecuting house churches and banishing foreign Christians from the country, presumably to squelch voices who might draw attention to the plight of religious minorities in the nation surrounding the Beijing Olympics.       "We seem to be seeing a crackdown ahead of the Olympics. Whether that's to send a message to the church to lay low or whether it is to make sure that anybody who might cause international embarrassment is taken care of ahead of time, I don't know," Todd Nettleton, a spokesman for Voice of the Martyrs, told Baptist Press. "But we do see an increase in the level of arrests, the level of house church services being raided, that sort of activity.       "We also have seen a number of foreigners who are Christians who, when the time came to renew their visa they have been denied a new visa and told that they had to leave the country," Nettleton added. "So it's happening both amongst the house churches of native Chinese people as well as foreign Christians who are living and working in China. They're finding that they're no longer welcome."

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Persecution against house churches in China last year was up 30.4 percent from 2006, and the total number of people persecuted was up 18.5 percent, according to a report by China Aid Association.

HONOLULU (BP)--For most Americans and even for world travelers, Hawaii is the ultimate exotic tourist destination. After all, it's paradise.       But for Southern Baptist missionaries Chris and Monica Woodall, Hawaii is not just a paradise but islands inhabited by the lost and hurting.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Comparing Islamic terrorists to such notables as Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot, President Bush told a friendly audience at the National Religious Broadcasters convention March 11 that America will win in Iraq and Afghanistan unless it "forgets the lessons of history."

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--Spring has sprung, or it's about to. In the South, the dogwoods are in bloom. There is warmth in the air.