by Brian Kaylor | Jul 6, 2016 | News
More than 300 Baptists from more than 50 countries trekked to Vancouver for the annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA). During the week-long event, Baptist leaders will join together for worship, ministry planning and dialogue on critical issues facing...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 6, 2016 | News
More than 65 million people were forcibly displaced by conflict in 2015, according to a United Nations’ Refugee Agency (UNHCR) report, nearly 6 million more than 2014. Of the total, 21.3 million were refugees, which include 16.1 million under the UNHCR’s...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 5, 2016 | News
Religious minorities experience a “heightened vulnerability” to human trafficking – modern-day slavery – according to the 2016 U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. “Modern-day slavery doesn’t happen...
by Brian Kaylor | Jul 4, 2016 | News
Global Baptists face a growing debate about how to best organize for relief and development work. This issue likely will be a focal point for hundreds of Baptists from dozens of countries who are in Vancouver, Canada, this week for the annual gathering of the Baptist...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 29, 2016 | News
The primary motivation for philanthropic gifts was a belief in an organization’s mission for 81 percent of U.S. adults who donated in the past year, according to a Gallup survey. Only 8 percent of respondents cited tax deductions as the major reason for their...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 28, 2016 | News
Around 200 Baptists joined Baptist Center for Ethics’ staff and board members to celebrate its 25th anniversary on Friday, June 24. Molly T. Marshall, president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee, Kansas, was recognized as EthicsDaily.com’s...
