by Bob Allen | Jun 28, 2004 | News
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship reached out in ecumenical and interfaith efforts at its June 24-26 General Assembly in Birmingham, Ala. The Fellowship, which claims 1,800 churches and 450,000 members, voted to become a founding member of Christian Churches Together...
by Bob Allen | Jun 28, 2004 | News
About 500 Baptists and Jews gathered for a Friday luncheon sponsored by the Baptist Center for Ethics encouraging “a new era” of improved relations between the two faiths. Between markers of a 1980 comment by an SBC president that God does not hear Jewish...
by Bob Allen | Jun 28, 2004 | News
Among criticism against the Baptist World Alliance by leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention was that BWA General Secretary Denton Lotz “cozied up” to Fidel Castro by meeting with the Cuban dictator. “I didn’t cozy up to Castro, I went...
by Bob Allen | Jun 23, 2004 | News
Homosexuality and dissatisfaction with American Baptists—two reasons given last week for the Southern Baptist Convention to pull out of the Baptist World Alliance—were never mentioned in discussions between SBC and BWA leaders leading up to the break, according to a...
by Bob Allen | Jun 22, 2004 | News
Accusations that the Baptist World Alliance tolerates homosexuality are false and slanderous, leaders of the group said in a statement released Monday. BWA officials said statements made to messengers at last week’s SBC annual meeting, which led to Southern...
