Jehovah’s Witnesses face increased childbirth risks
July 2, 2009
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Pregnant women who are Jehovah’s Witnesses are six times more likely to die during childbirth and three times more likely to have
BWAid sends help after Hungarian ice storm
June 25, 2009
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Baptist World Aid (BWAid) and Hungarian Baptist Aid’s (HBAid) Rescue24, the rescue-and-recovery arm of BWAid, participated in a rescue effort following a
Court says Catholics must open adoption to gays
June 25, 2009
LONDON — A British legal tribunal has ruled that Roman Catholic and other adoption charities must accept same-sex couples as adoptive parents or risk going
FBC Tuscaloosa couple build long-term bond with Ukrainians
June 18, 2009
In 1999, Rosalind and Jim Holloman traveled to Belgorod-Dnestrovsky, Ukraine, for what they thought would be a one-time missions trip. Since then, the couple have
Religion Law ‘limits people’s rights’ in Azerbaijan
June 18, 2009
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Azerbaijan’s repressive new Religion Law and amendments to both the Criminal Code and the Administrative Code went into force May 31. More
First German rabbis ordained since Holocaust
June 11, 2009
BERLIN — Germany saw the ordination of its own Orthodox rabbis on June 2, a first in the more than six decades since the Nazi
Germans ‘tweet’ their way through the Bible
May 30, 2009
FRANKFURT, Germany — The entire Bible can now be read in German using Twitter, following a record-breaking attempt to "tweet" the Scriptures from Genesis
Calvin’s 500th birthday celebrated with merger
May 28, 2009
GENEVA — Celebrations around the 500th birthday of 16th century Protestant Reformer John Calvin include plans to merge two global Reformed church organizations into one
