by Robert Parham | Jul 6, 2006 | Opinion
The Baptist World Alliance will give its 2006 Human Rights Award to Gustavo Parajon, a 70-year-old medical doctor and the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Managua, at the conclusion of its annual gathering in Mexico City. An unassuming man, Parajon, joins Jimmy...
by Robert Parham | Jul 5, 2006 | Opinion
MEXICO CITY–Global Baptists need “big ears” to listen to the voice of God, said David Coffey on the opening night of the Baptist World Alliance’s annual gathering in Mexico City. “We need big ears this week,” said Coffey, the BWA...
by Robert Parham | Jul 4, 2006 | Opinion
More than 500 global Baptists are expected to gather this week in Mexico City for the general council meeting of the Baptist World Alliance, the premier worldwide Baptist organization, which the Southern Baptist Convention abandoned in 2004. “We are flourishing....
by Robert Parham | Jul 3, 2006 | Opinion
Australia may be known as the nation “down under,” but Australian Baptists are on top of the Baptist world in terms of advocacy for the Micah Challenge. The Micah Challenge is an ambitious initiative that presses governments to keep their pledges to...
by Robert Parham | Jun 30, 2006 | Opinion
Political advocacy for the goal of the Micah Challenge to halve global poverty by 2015 finds little action among worldwide Baptists, save those in Australia. The Baptist World Aid-Australia is “the lead agency for MC, being among the largest funding bodies and...
