by Paul Hobson | Oct 7, 2016 | News
Baptists in Europe and the Middle East who are involved in the response to the refugee crisis are seeing an “incredible spiritual harvest.” Yet, there is a sense of anger, of being overwhelmed at its scale, and warnings about the growing pressure in places...
by Paul Hobson | May 18, 2016 | News
Baptists in the United Kingdom learned how Baptists in Lebanon have responded to the refugee crisis during the Baptist Union of Great Britain’s annual assembly on May 14. A video featuring the story of Ali, a taxi driver from Aleppo, was shown during the...
by Paul Hobson | Apr 5, 2016 | News
Following the Easter attack on a children’s park in Pakistan, the Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) of the Evangelical Alliance is calling on the British government to act immediately to enshrine freedom of religion or belief in all United Kingdom foreign...
by Paul Hobson | Nov 9, 2015 | News
Major churches in the United Kingdom are warning that the government’s Welfare Reform and Work Bill marks a dangerous shift away from a core principle of the welfare state and will make poor people even poorer. A YouGov survey commissioned by the churches has...
by Paul Hobson | Oct 21, 2015 | News
To leave people in such an inhuman place is a scandal, whatever one’s views on immigration. That was the response of Sam King, pastor of Calne Baptist Church in Wiltshire, United Kingdom, who recently saw the shocking conditions at the Calais refugee camp on the...
