by BWA Staff | Jul 3, 2009 | News
(BWA) – Commissions and workgroups of the Baptist World Alliance will focus largely on the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Baptist movement during the BWA Annual Gathering to be held in Ede, Netherlands, from July 27 to Aug. 1. Commissions and workgroups are...
by Brian Kaylor | Jul 2, 2009 | News
On June 26, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed unprecedented climate legislation endorsed by more than 140 Baptist leaders. One week before the 219-212 vote passing the “American Clean Energy and Security Act,” a Baptist Center for Ethics...
by BWA Staff | Jul 1, 2009 | News
(BWA) – Several Baptist leaders in the United States signed a letter sent to President Barack Obama calling for a just and lasting resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and for the establishment of “two viable, secure and independent states.” ...
by David McCollum | Jun 26, 2009 | News
When Shannon Avra arrived in China in 2003 to pick up her soon-to-be adopted daughter, she concedes she was in “adoption la la land.” That attitude changed quickly. As Anna Lee was handed over to her in the orphanage, she suddenly noticed the baby was...
by BWA Staff | Jun 26, 2009 | News
(BWA) – The president of the Christian University of Northern Haiti, also known as UCNH, made an impassioned call to Haitians to work together for national reconstruction. “The future of this country depends on us Haitians – not foreigners – and it is up to us...
by Brian Kaylor | Jun 24, 2009 | News
As messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention walked into the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center in Louisville, they were handed a copy of Missouri layman Roger Moran’s nearly 50-page “Viewpoint” document attacking the “Emerging Church...
