By Bob Allen / Baptist News Global

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Next year the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty will launch a new advocacy program for young professionals, the Washington-based church-state watchdog group announced Dec. 8.

The BJC Fellows Program is for people from diverse educational, professional and religious backgrounds who have been in their jobs less than six years. Ten applicants will receive an expense-paid four-day training seminar July 29-Aug. 2, 2015, at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.

“Central to the Baptist Joint Committee’s mission is the critical need to develop the next generation of religious liberty advocates,” said BJC Executive Director Brent Walker. …

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