Messengers approve all 12 recommendations from Exec Comm in Orlando
Southern Baptist Convention messengers approved all 12 recommendations presented by the Executive Committee during the Southern Baptists Convention annual meeting.
BWA, Baylor University launch new partnership and select director for global Baptist leadership
The Baptist World Alliance and Baylor University in Waco, Texas, are launching a new academic partnership designed to equip Baptist leaders for global service.
South Dakota pastor tackles unique fundraiser to ‘Stop Soldier Suicide’
Playing video games for 30 consecutive hours while live streaming, the vice president of the Dakota Baptist Convention aimed to raise funds to assist soldiers struggling with suicidal thoughts.
GCR Task Force audio files (part 8): Executive Committee leaders voice concerns
The Baptist Paper staff members continue their review of the audio files from the 2009–2010 meetings of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force.
KY man recognized for 54 years of perfect Sunday School attendance
Mike Coffee hasn’t missed Sunday school since 1968. That’s a streak of 54 years and counting for the 62-year-old Greenup
‘Brother Bob’ ministering to hospital patients through four decades
For more than four decades, almost every patient at Midland Memorial Hospital could count on a visit from “Brother Bob” Porterfield, pastor of West Kentucky Avenue Baptist Church in Midland.
‘Targeted’: Anti-Christian hostilities in India increase over prior years
Hostilities against Christians increased in 2025, with 747 incidents of violence, intimidation and discrimination marking a continued rise over prior
Brighter future? Iranian evangelicals staying put, tentative but hopeful.
Hormoz Shariat preaches to a congregation of millions of Iranian Christians around the world, those who have scattered because of repression at home and those who, having stayed, have long been the target of arrest by Iranian authorities, frequently accused of being tools of Western powers.