by Brian Kaylor | Oct 16, 2009 | News
A former president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. has filed his second lawsuit in two months against the convention. Henry Lyons, who led the NBC from 1994 to 1999 before resigning and serving four years in prison for racketeering and grand theft, ran...
by Brian Kaylor | Oct 7, 2009 | News
A top Southern Baptist official has accused President Barack Obama and congressional Democratic leaders of attempting to do “precisely what the Nazis did.” Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty...
by Baptist Times Staff | Oct 5, 2009 | News
A “feeble and ineffective” measure. That’s how Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Church leaders described Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s recent announcement that Britain was prepared to consider cutting its fleet of nuclear-armed submarines...
by BWA Staff | Oct 2, 2009 | News
Washington, DC (BWA) –Baptist World Aid (BWAid), the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), is coordinating relief efforts to the Philippines and Indonesia after these countries were badly affected by a typhoon and earthquakes,...
by Brian Kaylor | Oct 2, 2009 | News
On Sept. 30, two U.S. senators, Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.), introduced ambitious legislation designed to reduce carbon emissions and stop global warming. With many moderate Democrats offering doubts about the proposed “Clean Energy Jobs...
by Brian Kaylor | Sep 23, 2009 | News
Former Vice President Al Gore joined about 100 world leaders at the U.N. building in New York on Sept. 22 for an unprecedented day of discussions regarding climate change. President Barack Obama also addressed the meeting, which was designed to build momentum toward...