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 EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 24, 2012 | News
If access to safe water is the biggest problem for the world’s inhabitants, then the most compassionate thing to do is to solve that problem. So says Mark Hogg, founder and CEO of WaterStep, in a recent Skype interview with EthicsDaily.com. Based in Louisville,...
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 Baptist Times Staff | Oct 15, 2012 | News
Four major British denominations have warned that the government’s draft energy bill would set the United Kingdom up for failure on carbon targets. The Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church, the Quakers in Britain and the United Reformed Church...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 12, 2012 | News
Baylor Health Care System has created an office to coordinate efforts to provide healing both at home and abroad. “We’re not just trying to put another feather in our cap here,” says Don Sewell, director of Faith in Action Initiatives (FIAI) at...
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...
