A preacher teaching about Christ’s divinity was assaulted at an evangelistic event in Uganda, and so were the Christians trying to rescue him from the melee.
Alabama Baptists Becky Rogers and Karen Allen recently traveled to Paraguay as part of the Global Missions Project Celebration Orchestra, a ministry that brings musicians from across the globe together to spread the gospel through music.
August brought more reports of Christians in Nigeria killed, attacked and abducted. The country is No. 6 on Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List of places most difficult to be a Christian.
See You at the Pole, the annual global day of student prayer, is Wednesday, Sept. 27. This year’s theme is “Wholehearted.” Will you be participating? Send your pictures and info to news@thealabamabaptist.org.
Ninety-year-old Thomas Thornton of Muscle Shoals, pastor of Abbie Baptist Church in Leighton, has been in ministry 54 years and says ministry is the “best thing that ever happened to me and my family.”
Police in China raided a church’s summer youth camp and detained four Christian adults for “carrying out activities in the name of an illegal social organization.”