by Brian Kaylor | Apr 3, 2009 | News
David Goatley, executive secretary-treasurer of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, urged Baptists gathering from several different denominations not to allow borders to separate them from one another. Goatley, who is also president of the North...
by BWA Staff | Apr 3, 2009 | News
Washington, DC (BWA) –Three Baptist women were detained and fined for “illegally spreading Christianity and other faiths” in the South Caucasus country of Azerbaijan on March 25. The three, who are from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, were charged...
by David McCollum | Apr 3, 2009 | News
Carolyn Staley sees a parallel between racial relations in church life and the relationship of women in ministry. Staley, the minister of education at Pulaski Heights Baptist Church in Little Rock, Ark., has organized an Arkansas Chapter of Baptist Women in...
by Amy Walker | Apr 2, 2009 | News
ATLANTA (CBF) – For 50 days last summer, 13 students toured six countries to see for themselves how the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations, which aim to eradicate poverty, interact with their faith. At the end of their trip, they were...
by Aarik Danielsen | Mar 27, 2009 | News
Throughout the Missouri Baptist Convention’s six-year legal battle against five Baptist agencies, convention leaders frequently promised that no Cooperative Program money would be used to fund the lawsuits. However, an analysis of the MBC’s audit reports indicates...
by Brian Kaylor | Mar 26, 2009 | News
Thirty years ago today—on March 26, 1979—Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. The result of months of negotiations, the two men met in Washington, D.C., with President Jimmy Carter to sign...
