Most Americans prefer real-live preaching, LifeWay survey shows

January 2, 2014

Most Americans still prefer a real-live preacher to a video sermon, according to a survey by LifeWay Research. About a third (35 percent) say they

Church members’ homes raided in Turkmenistan

January 2, 2014

DASHOGUZ, Turkmenistan — Police and MSS secret police in Dashoguz, Turkmenistan, have raided members of the Pentecostal church Light of the East. Two homes of

Faith-Focused Security Training for volunteers to be offered 25 times across Alabama in 2014

December 19, 2013

Alabama Baptists who do volunteer missions work overseas will have 25 opportunities in 2014 to be trained in safety and security. Faith-Focused Security Training (FFST)

Ten Commandments could sit beside pentagram

December 19, 2013

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Controversy over a Ten Commandments monument on grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol took a surprising twist when Satanists sought to

Noted convert in Egypt arrested, likely tortured

December 19, 2013

CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian authorities recently arrested a Christian who is arguably the nation’s most well-known convert from Islam and are investigating him for several

Sudan revokes citizenship of Christian, jails him

December 19, 2013

JUBA, South Sudan — A Christian has been jailed in Khartoum, Sudan for declining to leave the country after authorities revoked his Sudanese citizenship, sources