Baptist News Briefs
October 12, 2000
Campers give $513,169 for missions Nashville, Tenn. – Nearly 54,000 teens attending Centrifuge and Ministry-Fuge camps this summer pitched in $513,169.63 for international missions projects
Alabamian among Baptist members on ‘Anglican conversation’ team
October 12, 2000
Timothy George, dean of Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School, is helping Baptists and Anglicans better communicate. He was among members of the Baptist delegation
Bombs explode in Tajikistan
October 12, 2000
Two powerful bombs exploded during a Christian church service in Tajikistan’s capital city of Dushanbe Oct. 1, leaving 10 members of the congregation dead and
Missions volunteers share basics of medicine, gospel
October 5, 2000
Ask anyone who has ever participated in a medical missions trip and they will all tell you the same thing — it changes their life.
Church denied site; new law used in suit
October 5, 2000
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has filed a lawsuit under a new federal law dealing with religious land use. The case, believed to be
A greater faith? Professor: U.S. can learn from Canada
October 5, 2000
Americans and Canadians can benefit from sifting out the subtle religious differences between their two nations, says one of the premier Christian historians in North
Alabama missions team see success with Philippines trip
October 5, 2000
The Alabama group arrived at the Manila airport full of excitement at the prospect of holding a free medical clinic for needy Filipinos. Hopes of
Samford students study, plant seeds in North Africa
October 5, 2000
As the call to noon prayer lifted and resonated from the white-washed walls of the simple mud-walled mosque sitting virtually alone in the desert, Kathy
