by BWA Staff | Nov 8, 2012 | News
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) has awarded $10,000 for flood relief in Nigeria after torrential rains killed more than 360 people, injured more than 18,000, caused widespread property damage and displaced more than two million people. The worst floods in five...
by BWA Staff | Nov 1, 2012 | News
Baptist World Aid, the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), has granted an initial sum of $20,000 for relief to the Caribbean following Hurricane Sandy’s passage through the northern Caribbean and the United States. Jamaica, Cuba,...
by BWA Staff | Oct 25, 2012 | News
Baptists in Lebanon are appealing to the worldwide Baptist family to pray for the Middle Eastern country in the wake of a bomb blast on Oct. 19. At least eight persons were killed, including Wissam al-Hassan, the country’s head of intelligence, and his...
by BWA Staff | Oct 24, 2012 | News
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) will participate in a review of Pakistan’s human rights record at an upcoming meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). The HRC’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Pakistan takes place in Geneva,...
by BWA Staff | Oct 10, 2012 | News
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) is leading a response to assist Syrians displaced by the civil war in the Middle Eastern country. Baptists around the world are being encouraged to make donations to the BWA to alleviate what has developed into an urgent need. The BWA...
