by BWA Staff | Oct 14, 2008 | News
(BWA) Edna Lee de Gutiérrez from Mexico, president of the Baptist World Alliance Women’s Department (BWAWD) from 1985-1990 and vice president of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) from 1990-1995, died on Sunday, October 5. “The BWA is greatly indebted to...
by BWA Staff | Oct 7, 2008 | News
Washington, D.C. (BWA) –The Baptist World Alliance has expressed grave concerns about the persecution of Christians in the Indian eastern state of Orissa. Since the month of August, an outbreak of violence and intimidation against Christians by Hindu radicals...
by BWA Staff | Mar 14, 2008 | News
WASHINGTON (BWA) The head of BMS World Mission, the British Baptist mission agency, has been selected to be the 10th president of Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago. Alistair Brown, general director of BMS World Mission since 1996, was elected as the...
by BWA Staff | Dec 25, 2007 | News
Washington (BWA) For the very first time, permission was granted by Malaysian authorities for Christians to celebrate Christmas in the Muslim-majority country. John Kok, president of the Malaysia Baptist Convention (MBC) and senior pastor of Kuala Lumpur Baptist...
by BWA Staff | Nov 20, 2007 | News
(BWA) Baptist World Aid, the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance has received cries of help from two BWA member bodies in Bangladesh, the Baptist Sangha and the Fellowship, following Cyclone Sidr. They have already been feeding cyclone survivors...
