For 49 years, South Carolina Baptists have provided a Christmas gift to every inmate in the state, bringing hope to nearly 1 million people over the life of the ministry.
The wife of 44-year-old SIM USA missionary Beau Shroyer, who was fatally stabbed in 2024, in Lubango, Angola — near where the couple and their five children lived — has reportedly been convicted and sentenced to 24 years in an Angolan prison.
“This familiar season of gratitude also exposes the nagging, internal struggle that wreaks havoc in the typical American heart. Though we want to grow in thankfulness, enticements toward greed often overcome us,” noted pastor Adam Dooley.
Amid times of worship, learning and fellowship, messengers to the 2025 annual meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) also conducted some business on Nov. 11.
A 61-year-old Iranian Christian convert, Mina Khajavi, has been freed from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison after serving nearly two years for her involvement in a house church,
A massive crackdown on an Islamist religio-political party and a recent announcement by Pakistan’s law minister suggest authorities have resolved to make procedural changes to controversial blasphemy laws, sources said.