Australia: Christmas falls during summer for Australians
December 23, 2010
Rod Benson is an ethicist and director of public theology for the Tinsley Institute, based at Morling College in Sydney, Australia. He is a former
Italy: Christmas all about family reunions, special meals, faith, welcoming lonely people or immigrants in Italy
December 23, 2010
Anna Maffei is president of the Christian Evangelical Baptist Union of Italy, which includes 116 churches and 6,200 members. Christmas is the feast of the
Russia: Christmas comes twice a year for Baptists, others in Russia
December 23, 2010
Russians are only now re-learning Christmas. There was no official Christmas holiday in Russia between 1925 and 1992. Its reintroduction also is greatly hampered by
Armenians anxious about restrictions on religion
December 23, 2010
YEREVAN, Armenia — Concern is mounting among human rights defenders and many of Armenia’s religious minority communities about proposed amendments to several laws imposing new
Christmas ad in Britain shows Christ in womb
December 9, 2010
An advertising campaign designed to help people focus on Christ at Christmas will portray an ultrasound scan of the Son of God in His mother’s
Baptists jailed for holding harvest celebration
December 2, 2010
KUSAR, Azerbaijan — Four Baptists in Azerbaijan were given five-day jail terms Oct. 31 after a police raid the same day on a harvest festival
Former British Baptist exec dies
December 2, 2010
David Russell, who served as general secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, has died. He was 94. As British Baptists’ top executive from
FBC Montgomery helps in Ukraine
November 11, 2010
Volunteers from First Baptist Church, Montgomery, hold a medical clinic at a Baptist church in Boguslav, Ukraine. The 16-member team of physicians, registered nurses, pharmacists
