SBC 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. Jennifer Rash reports from outside the SBC Annual Meeting convention hall with some of the stories coming out of this year’s meeting in Dallas. Find out more HERE

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Yes, the church is growing — but how healthy is it?

August 23, 2026

Between 2024 and 2025, the number of Americans going to a Christian church at least twice a year grew by 8 million. Recent research from the American Bible Society called the trend encouraging — even as a closer look revealed deeper concerns and some generational differences.

Alarm raised over ‘growing wave of killings, abductions and attacks’ in Sudan

August 22, 2026

Church leaders and Christians in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains are facing a growing wave of killings, abductions and attacks as fighting between rival armed factions intensifies in the country’s South Kordofan state, Christian Daily International reported.

Mallette named executive director/treasurer of Nevada Baptist Convention

August 21, 2026

The Nevada Baptist Convention has named Adam Mallette its next executive director/treasurer. Mallette, lead teaching pastor of King’s Church in Las Vegas, was approved to serve following a unanimous vote by the NBC’s Executive Board on Aug. 11 at a special called business meeting.

Monthly crime shows 3 European countries with most attacks against Christians

August 21, 2026

Germany ranks as the most dangerous country in Europe for Christians through the first half of this year, with France and Italy trailing close behind, according to an analysis of monthly crime tracking by a Christian organization on the continent.