Retired IMB missionary, Alabama Baptist dies
July 30, 2015
HUNTSVILLE — Alabama Baptist Benjamin Edgar Hope, retired International Mission Board missionary to Brazil for 33 years, died June 11. He was 79. Hope graduated
LifeWay, BGCE partner to run evangelism center
July 30, 2015
NASHVILLE — LifeWay Research and The Billy Graham Center for Evangelism (BGCE) at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, have partnered to “facilitate the advancement of
GuideStone appeals contraceptive mandate ruling
July 30, 2015
DALLAS — GuideStone Financial Services has filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court against the government’s contraceptive mandate that will require certain ministries served
United Nations report on Eritrea references Baptist World Alliance submissions
July 23, 2015
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) was one of several nongovernmental organizations (NGO) whose findings were incorporated into a report issued by the United Nations (UN)
Baptist concerns greet order against bakers
July 23, 2015
WASHINGTON — A penalty of $135,000 and a gag order against Oregon bakers who declined to provide a cake for a same-sex ceremony have evoked
Ten Commandments ruling may threaten other states
July 23, 2015
OKLAHOMA CITY — If allowed to stand, an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling banning a privately funded Ten Commandments display on the state capitol grounds could
Episcopals elect Curry first black presiding bishop
July 23, 2015
Salt Lake City — Episcopal bishops have made history again. On June 27 during a private meeting at St. Mark’s Cathedral in downtown Salt Lake
Church buildings bombed, Christians killed in Nigeria
July 16, 2015
JOS, Nigeria — At least five Christians were killed in northeastern Nigeria over a weekend of violence capped by a twin bombing in Jos that
