A 1972 photograph of 9-year-old Kim Phuc fleeing her burning village in Vietnam — her clothes incinerated from her body and her skin falling from her back and arms — captured the world’s attention. Some say it fanned the flame…
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Baptist leaders join coalition in calling for action against Iran
WASHINGTON (ABP) – Several Southern Baptists joined a coalition of Christian leaders claiming to represent 25 million Americans sending letters to President Obama and foreign ambassadors and heads of state opposing efforts by Iran to get the United Nations to…
Vietnam napalm girl now an advocate for peace
HARRISONBURG, Va. (ABP) — You may not know her name, but if you were born before 1970 you have seen Kim Phuc’s picture. She is the 9-year-old girl seen running burned and naked in Nick Ut’s 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo…
Learn to forgive, girl in iconic war photo tells Baptist Peace Fellowship
HARRISONBURG, Va. (ABP) — You may not know her name, but if you were born before 1970 you have seen Kim Phuc’s picture. She is the 9-year-old girl seen running burned and naked in Nick Ut’s 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo…
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BWA to explore dialogue with Pentecostals, Orthodox
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (ABP) – Conversations between Baptists and Pentecostals are scheduled in December to explore formal dialogue between the two large Christian traditions. Neville Callam, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, announced at leadership meetings July 7 in…
BWA commission urges continued dialogue with Muslims
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (ABP) — Baptists must continue to dialogue with Muslims around the world in hopes of promoting “peaceful living together,” a Baptist World Alliance commission concluded July 6. Nicholas Wood (left), director of the Oxford Centre for Christianity…
BWA commission urges Baptists to continue conversation with Muslims
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Baptists must continue to engage Muslims around the world in hopes of promoting “peaceful living together,” a Baptist World Alliance commission concluded July 6. Developing a process by which Christians and Muslims can address and resolve…
Global Baptists to explore talks with Orthodox and Pentecostals
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Baptists will begin preparatory conversations later this year with representatives of both Orthodox Christianity and Pentecostal churches, aiming for eventual formal theological dialogue with both, a Baptist World Alliance leader announced July 7. BWA general secretary…
Laughter makes worlds overlap says comic pastor
TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) — Humor is both Susan Sparks’ heart and her arms to embrace strangers and implode barriers that would keep them from Jesus. Susan Sparks The stand-up comic who is also a pastor and former lawyer embodies a…
Pastor says God chooses who will be saved
PASADENA, Calif. (ABP) – A Southern Baptist pastor told a California audience June 26 that the notion that God foreknew which believers would freely choose to accept Christ is false. Steve Lawson, pastor of Christ Fellowship Baptist Church, Mobile, Ala.,…