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Latest news: SBC resolutions topics released; Africa & future population projections; Mohler Amendment continues to spark analysis; Ebola update; reflections of a soccer dad

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Latest news: SBC resolutions topics released; Africa & future population projections; Mohler Amendment continues to spark analysis; Ebola update; reflections of a soccer dad

To read a quick recap of some of the latest news reports and other articles from The Baptist Paper this week, see below.

1. The slate of resolutions for the 2026 Southern Baptist Convention has been released.

SBC resolutions committee releases topics for 2026 annual meeting

2. Africa’s population has grown more than sixfold since 1950 and is projected to keep expanding through the end of the century — even as growth slows across most of the world — study shows.

Africa projected to hold half the world’s young people by 2100

3. Griffin Gulledge of The Baptist Review shares thoughts on Mohler Amendment.

Opinion: 21 notes about the Mohler Amendment

4. Samaritan’s Purse recently airlifted an Ebola treatment unit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in response to the outbreak of the deadly disease.

‘Ready for the task’: Samaritan’s Purse opens Ebola treatment unit in Congo

5. One soccer dad shares lessons learned after years of rooting on his daughter from the sidelines. 

First person: Confessions of a recovering soccer dad

 

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