Five news nuggets to know this week

Welcome to The Weekly, produced by TAB Media Group, which publishes The Alabama Baptist and The Baptist Paper. Each episode features news headlines read by TAB Media Group staff and volunteers. New episodes are released weekly on Wednesday mornings. Articles featured in this episode:

Pakistan sees spike in false accusations of blasphemy (0:40)

Christians killed for their faith in Uganda and Nigeria (1:32)

Evangelistic event in Texas records hundreds of salvation decisions (2:12)

Bible reading marathons taking place across Alabama (3:19)

World Changers celebrates 35 years of ministry (4:05)

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Faith, funerals and foxhounds: How one bivocational pastor ministers in times of grief

May 16, 2025

Those who know Rusty Walton best might say that this bivocational pastor, who also helps run a funeral home, is “dead serious” about ministry.

Pastor suspended by church after fake social media accounts exposed

May 15, 2025

Josh Buice, founder of the G3 Conference and pastor of Pray’s Mill Baptist Church in Douglasville, Georgia, was placed on indefinite leave last week.

Update: Johnny Hunt jury trial on hold

May 15, 2025

In an order issued Monday, May 12, Judge William L. Campbell Jr. announced that the jury trial in the lawsuit brought by Johnny Hunt against the Southern Baptist Convention and others has been canceled.

SC Supreme Court upholds 6-week abortion ban; legal challenges continue

May 15, 2025

The court concluded that while the law’s language referencing “fetal heartbeat” is medically vague, the legislative intent and prior statements by both lawmakers and abortion providers consistently aligned with a six-week threshold …