The United Methodist Church will not hold its 2012 leadership conference in Richmond because the name of the city’s minor league baseball team is racially charged, the church’s leadership has announced. Members of the conference’s planning commission said they were…
Terrorist executed for killing missionaries
Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel‚ convicted of murdering three Southern Baptist missionaries in a Yemeni hospital in 2002 died by firing squad Feb. 27, Reuters reported. Authorities already executed Kamel's accomplice, Ali al-Jarallah, Nov. 27 of last year. The Yemeni government…
Center seeks college students for Heritage Fellows
Baptist college students interested in church music and worship are encourged to apply for the 2006-07 class of Heritage Fellows of the Center for Baptist Heritage and Studies. The program provides an opportunity for Baptist sophomores and juniors attending Virginia…
Lotz to retire as BWA exec.; Kazakh Baptists withdraw
By Robert Marus and Jim White Denton Lotz, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, began his report to the BWA executive committee meeting in Falls Church by asking his wife, Janice, to join him at the podium. With her…
Virginia and India: An enduring partnership
More than a year after a catastrophic tsunami opened doors for Virginia Baptists to minister in southern India, ties between Baptists in the Commonwealth and in the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu are burgeoning. Virginia Baptists are now…
Back at sea: Partnership between Indian and Virginia Baptists is restoring livel
By Robert Dilday Associate Editor Some 75 Indian fishing families have had their livelihoods restored, thanks to the joint efforts of Baptists in Virginia and India. Over the past few months, fiberglass boats-replacing those destroyed by last year's tsunami-have been…
Gaddy warns Mainstream Baptists to be vigilant on religious liberty
5{arus Associated Baptist Press Speaking Feb. 24 in the birthplace of the First Amendment’s religion clauses, a Baptist minister who is a professional opponent of the Religious Right warned Baptists to be equally vigilant. Welton Gaddy, president of the Washington-based…
Foreign policy think tank begins initiative on religion
With help from a former secretary of state, an influential think tank focusing on foreign relations has launched a new initiative that will study and explain the role religion plays in foreign policy. The Council on Foreign Relations, with offices…
NAMB panel to study charges, but agency won’t release audit
By Greg Warner Associated Baptist Press Trustees of the North American Mission Board are asking a task force to see if there is any truth to allegations-first reported in the Christian Index-that the NAMB's evangelism and church-planting efforts are lagging…