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Baptist-Catholic dialogue continues with second round

WASHINGTON (BWA) — The second round in the second series of conversations between the Baptist World Alliance and the Vatican was to take place Dec. 2-8 in Rome. The first round in this series was held at Beeson Divinity School…

Blair, afraid of being labeled a ‘nutter,’ kept faith private

LONDON (RNS) — Former British prime minister Tony Blair says his religious faith, although rarely expressed in public, was “hugely important” to him but he feared he might be viewed as a “nutter” if he spoke out about it. Blair,…

OFFERINGS: Bandela partners with Indian church starters in ministry

ATLANTA — For five years, Sam Bandela, one of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's global missions field personnel, has been working patiently among hill tribes in the mountainous central region of India. Even as tsunami relief and personal challenges intervened, Bandela…

OFFERINGS: Harding brings clean water, love of Christ to Ethiopians

ATLANTA — In Ethiopia, the new rush of fresh, drinkable water brings a rush of joy. “When you strike water and the well starts to work, you should hear the joy,” said David Harding, one of CBF's global missions field…

OFFERINGS: Taking the gospel to Russia’s struggling Udmurt people

IZHEVSK, Russia (BP) — No father should have to bury a son. But the world can be a sad place — particularly the piece of it called Udmurtia (ood-MER-ti-yah) in the foothills of Russia's Ural Mountains. On a spring day…

OFFERINGS: Ukrainian believers take gospel to Kazakhstan

PAVLODAR, Kazakhstan (BP) — Roman Gopanchuk gestures with his left hand and leans forward to explain a Scripture passage to his home Bible study group in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. Just outside the living room door, Gopanchuk's 8-year-old son, Timofey, plays with…

We three kings of Orient are … mostly unknown to Christians

They came. They saw. They gifted. That's about all we know of the foreign visitors who traveled to Bethlehem to see the infant Jesus. The scene ingrained in the public imagination — a stately procession of three kings in turbans,…

New Baptist Covenant preach-in features Forbes, other notables

ATLANTA (ABP) — A miniature preaching festival within next year's Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant will feature one of the nation's most famous preachers among a group that is broadly diverse in terms of ethnic background, gender, denominational affiliation…

State resolutions focus on alcohol, gambling, homosexuality, abuse

WASHINTON (ABP) — The pleasures of the flesh — specifically liquor and sex — were among the most popular subjects of resolutions passed by Southern Baptist-affiliated state conventions this fall. Although many state conventions avoided resolutions on controversial issues of…

Longtime Baptist statesman Wayne Dehoney dies at 89

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Former Southern Baptist Convention president Wayne Dehoney, longtime pastor of Walnut Street Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., died Nov. 15. He was 89. Dehoney, who served at Walnut Street from 1967 to 1985, was SBC president…

Child killed in Mexico after accident with Baptist volunteers

DALLAS (ABP) — A Baptist team of volunteers on their way to feed flood victims in Southern Mexico accidentally killed a child in a traffic accident Nov. 15. Members of Texas Baptist Men, a men's missions organization, were driving through…

Hillary Clinton pays a call on Rick Warren’s conference on HIV/AIDS

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (RNS) — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., reached out to conservative Christians on Nov. 29 at a church-run AIDS conference where the presidential candidate fused her faith with the event's push to combat HIV and AIDS. “It's…

Islamophobia is the next bogeyman

The Black Church cannot remain America’s emergency moral infrastructure

We are manna

Webinar explores religious context of America’s Founders