by Robert Parham | Jul 11, 2007 | Opinion
Ghana Baptist Convention president Steve Asante handed a traditional gift–an egg wrapped in a blue-and-white cloth–to Baptist World Alliance president David Coffey on the closing day of the July 2-7 BWA annual gathering in Accra. Coffey then handed the...
by Robert Parham | Jul 10, 2007 | Opinion
“Prosperity gospel” churches compete with Baptist churches in Africa, especially for younger people, with promises of wealth and health, according to participants in a forum discussion Saturday at the Baptist World Alliance gathering in Accra, Ghana. The...
by Robert Parham | Jul 9, 2007 | Opinion
Gathered last Thursday on the Ghana coast at a former slave castle, global Baptists struck yet again at the manacles that have chained together for centuries whites and blacks in the tortured heritage of slavery, segregation and separation. The world’s largest...
by Robert Parham | Jul 6, 2007 | Opinion
A Jamaican Baptist pastor forced the controversial question of compensation to modern-day African descendants for the imprisonment and forced labor of their ancestors at the annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance meeting in Ghana. Speaking only a hundred yards...
by Robert Parham | Jul 4, 2007 | Opinion
Liberia must unearth “deep remembering” to move toward reconciliation and healing after a 14-year civil war that killed more than 200,000 and displaced nearly everyone in the West African nation, a war victim turned reconciler said at the annual meeting of...
