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Baptist board eases rule on 'tongues'
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Southern Baptist International Mission Board has stepped back from its ban on appointing missionaries who use a "private prayer language", or speak in tongues in private.
Mission board trustees, meeting here this month, voted to turn the policies into guidelines, meaning the provision "will be applied with a degree of flexibility", said board attorney Matt Bristol.
Some Southern Baptists had protected the policy, saying the matter of private prayer should not be a test.
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