Baptist volunteer released by Haiti

May 27, 2010

Baptist volunteer Laura Silsby has been released by Haitian authorities after a court conviction May 17. According to The Associated Press (AP), Silsby was convicted

Richard Land to speak on immigration

May 20, 2010

Richard Land is scheduled to address the topic of immigration during the National Hispanic Fellowship of Southern Baptist Churches meeting on the afternoon of June

Liberty University to investigate its seminary president

May 20, 2010

LYNCHBURG, Va. — Liberty University will investigate reports that its seminary president has misled the public in his testimony about converting from militant Islam to

Baptist pastor imprisoned in Azerbaijan reports another run-in with authorities

May 20, 2010

A Baptist pastor in Azerbaijan who served 10 months in prison before appeals from Baptists worldwide spurred the nation’s president to pardon him says police

Muslims abduct young Christian woman, beat her mother

May 20, 2010

LAHORE, Pakistan — Muslims who kidnapped and forcibly converted an 18-year-old Christian woman to Islam severely beat her mother on two occasions to discourage her

Pope challenges Portuguese on abortion, gay ‘marriage’

May 20, 2010

FATIMA, Portugal — Pope Benedict XVI on May 13 singled out abortion, divorce and same-sex “marriage” as “some of today’s most insidious and dangerous threats

Shrimping town near oil spill buoyed by prayer

May 20, 2010

Residents in the small shrimping community of Venice, La., are uncertain about their future amid reporters who have crowded into the state’s southernmost town to