Assam state police arrested a Baptist church worker Nov. 22 on charges of violating a new law intended to curb “magical healing.” The arrest came after he prayed for villagers in the northeastern India state.
Joy Fenner, a Baptist missionary, Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas leader and the first woman elected as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, died Nov. 29 in Dallas. She was 89.
Azerbaijan, which hosted a United Nations climate summit last month, has come under international scrutiny for human rights and religious freedom violations.
Several hundred people in North Carolina, who continue to deal with the aftereffects of Hurricane Helene, will be warmer this Thanksgiving weekend due to the generosity of a small Baptist association in Texas.
“The sun will come up again on a new day, and we will begin the familiar routines that sustain life and mental health…,” writes Ruth Cook.
Members of a Baptist church in Mexico’s Hidalgo State who were displaced in April have moved to neighboring Veracruz State after local officials failed to honor their religious freedom rights, an international human rights group reported.
When the casseroles are gone and friends and family wave goodbye, the woman who has lost her husband now faces the unknown. From that moment
For the third consecutive year, volunteers from First Baptist Church in Garland, Texas, will travel to eastern Europe to bring Christmas joy to Ukrainian refugee children.
What is the Christian’s responsibility in navigating this technology, and how should they interact with it? A Baptist ethicist is working to answer these questions.
Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting soundly defeated a motion affirming the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message, the Southern Baptist Convention statement of faith that limits the role of pastor to men.
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