Report finds increase in religion coverage

July 20, 2000

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A recent study from a prominent media analysis group finds that religion is getting more new coverage and more journalists are attending

Judge strikes down law on student prayer

July 20, 2000

MONROE, La. — A Louisiana federal court June 14 struck down a state law permitting student volunteers to open the public school day with a

Alabama Baptists participate in Chicago effort

July 20, 2000

Alabama Baptists were among the more than 1,500 volunteers from out-of-town who joined local Baptists in Chicago as part of a massive evangelism and church-planting

Relief workers needed in North Korea

July 20, 2000

The North Korean government’s Flood Damage Rehabilitation Committee has invited Baptist World Aid and Hungarian Baptist World Aid (HBAid), to send relief workers to North

Volunteers needed in Western Europe

July 13, 2000

Western Europe is a mission field in great need of ministry. Fewer than 1 percent of the population are evangelical Christians. Teaching English to immigrants

Summer missionary killed in van crash

July 13, 2000

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A Georgia university student helping to build a church in Botswana was killed July 1 when the van in which he

Nigerian state declares itself Islamic

July 13, 2000

SOKOTO, Nigeria — Nigeria’s Sokoto state declared itself Islamic beginning May 29, despite a federal government directive that no state should adopt a state religion.