BWAid Gives to Flood Victims In Mexico

(BWA) Baptist World Aid has sent an initial sum of $10,000 to aid victims of flooding in Mexico.The floods, rising to as high as 19 feet, occurred last week when the GrijalvaRiver burst its banks in Tabasco in southern Mexico, and have displaced approximately 800,000...

BWAid Gives to Flood Victims In Mexico

(BWA) Baptist World Aid has sent an initial sum of $10,000 to aid victims of flooding in Mexico. The floods, rising to as high as 19 feet, occurred last week when the Grijalva River burst its banks in Tabasco in southern Mexico, and have displaced approximately...

Baptists Aid Hurricane Victims

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BWA)–Baptist World Aid, the relief-and-development arm of the Baptist World Alliance, has made donations to victims of Hurricane Dean on the Caribbean island of Jamaica.The hurricane, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in recent decades,...

Baptist Leader Seeks Prayer for Kosovo Crisis

(BWA) Bekim Beka, pastor of the New Hope Baptist Church in Prishtina, Kosovo, has asked Baptists around the world to pray for the ethnic fighting that has erupted there with 22 people killed and more than 500 injured.Started with help from Baptist World Aid, the...

Baptist World Aid Sends Funds to Middle East

Baptist World Aid (BWAid), the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), has sent an initial $10,000 for relief work among Iraqi refugees. The Jordan Baptist Convention (JBC) has received half of those funds, while the other $5,000 has gone to a...