Texas Baptists post list of clergy sex-abusers
June 14, 2007
DALLAS — The Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT) has made public a list of registered sex-offenders currently or previously on staff at affiliated churches.
CP giving: 2.22 percent ahead of last year
June 14, 2007
NASHVILLE — Year-to-date contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program (CP) are 2.22 percent ahead of the same time in 2006, according to a
Indian conversion laws come under review
June 7, 2007
NEW DELHI — India’s National Commission for Minorities has asked several Indian states that have adopted controversial anti–conversion laws to provide data about how many
Malaysia halts woman’s effort to legally convert
June 7, 2007
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia’s highest court handed down a decision May 30 that prevents Lina Joy, a Muslim convert to Christianity, from having her
Once center of Persian Empire, Iran’s modern history fraught with fighting
June 7, 2007
According to the U.S. Department of State, modern Iranian history began with an uprising against the then–ruling shah in 1905. While there have been periods
Gospel moving despite persecution
June 7, 2007
The 1979 revolution in Iran was an attempt to slam shut the country’s doors to the gospel but it did not succeed. The truth is
Pumpelly to lead True Love Waits in Africa
June 7, 2007
NASHVILLE — Sharon Pumpelly, who with her husband Larry spent 25 years as an International Mission Board (IMB) missionary in Uganda and Kenya, has been
Iran departs from religious legacy, persecutes non-Muslims
June 7, 2007
In 1979, the citizens of Iran were hopeful for a future with more freedom. But that hope evaporated into a haze of intolerance and oppression
