Minister calls for black Baptist group to help families

Saturday, June 23, 2007

ST. LOUIS -- A black Baptist leader is urging black churches to set goals for reducing by 25 percent the rate of black divorce, teen pregnancy, illiteracy, murder and HIV infection by 2012, and increasing the adoption of black foster children.

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