Every Friday evening, the empty parking lot of St. Matthew Catholic Church in Phoenix, Arizona, comes alive as members of Centro Cristiano de Alabanza y Adoracion arrive to offer food, encouragement and prayer to the homeless, Arizona Portraits reported.
Pastor Enrique Borja hopes to expand the ministry. “There are a lot of people sleeping behind the freeway,” he said. “We want to go to those places. We can do a little more. I hope we can do better.”
A group of evangelical broadcasters is suing the Internal Revenue Service over the Johnson Amendment, a tax law that bars nonprofits from supporting political candidates.
More than 60 students reportedly were baptized during an evangelism event on the Ohio State University campus.
Jason Thacker, who directs the Research Institute at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, described this latest revelation as “deeply disturbing.”
The missions trip was part of the Arizona Mission Network of Southern Baptists’ partnership with the International Mission Board’s sub-Saharan Africa Affinity.
