NORTHFIELD, Mass. (RNS) — Rankled at the prospect that “extremist” Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., might soon own the campus where they spent their prep school years, alumni of Northfield Mount Hermon School are petitioning to stop it. In a…
Burma refugee liaison is new BWAid director
WASHINGTON — An advocate for Burmese refugees has been named director of Baptist World Aid, an agency which works closely with Baptist disaster relief organizations in Virginia and North Carolina. Rothangliani Rema Chhangte will assume her new role with BWAid,…
Mass. alumni don’t want Liberty to get free campus
NORTHFIELD, Mass. (RNS) — Rankled at the prospect that “extremist” Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., might soon own the campus where they spent their prep school years, alumni of Northfield Mount Hermon School are petitioning to stop it. In a…
Jews are world’s most migratory religious group, study says
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Ever since their mad dash out of Egypt bound for the Promised Land, Jews have been on the move — and they continue to be, far more than any other religious group, according to a new study….
Jews are world’s most migratory religious group
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Ever since their mad dash out of Egypt bound for the Promised Land, Jews have been on the move — and they continue to be, far more than any other religious group, according to a new study….
Jews are world’s most migratory religious group
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Ever since their mad dash out of Egypt bound for the Promised Land, Jews have been on the move — and they continue to be, far more than any other religious group, according to a new study….
Burma refugee liaison is new BWAid director
WASHINGTON — An advocate for Burmese refugees has been named director of Baptist World Aid, an agency which works closely with Baptist disaster relief organizations in Virginia and North Carolina. Rothangliani Rema Chhangte will assume her new role with BWAid,…
Burma refugee liaison is new BWAid director
WASHINGTON — An advocate for Burmese refugees has been named director of Baptist World Aid, an agency which works closely with Baptist disaster relief organizations in Virginia and North Carolina. Rothangliani Rema Chhangte will assume her new role with BWAid,…
Washington minister to receive BWA human rights award
By Robert Dilday Edgar Palacios, a Salvadoran who serves as associate pastor for Christian education at Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, is the 2012 recipient of the Baptist World Alliance’s Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award. The announcement was…
Former teacher, youth pastor indicted on sex charges
By Bob Allen An Alabama grand jury indicted a former teacher and Southern Baptist youth minister March 6 on eight counts of sexual abuse 20 years after he avoided firing from his school-teacher job for similar allegations. Daniel Acker, who…
D.C. minister to receive BWA human rights award
WASHINGTON — Edgar Palacios, a Salvadoran who serves as associate pastor for Christian education at Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, is the 2012 recipient of the Baptist World Alliance’s Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award. The announcement was made…
Herald launches new blog site to ‘enhance discourse’ among Baptist community in Mid-Atlantic region
RICHMOND, Va. — The Religious Herald launched on March 7 a new blogging site — HeraldBlogs — with an initial group of 16 bloggers drawn primarily from the Mid-Atlantic region, with a few from other parts of the country. The site,…