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…
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…
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.,…
Burmese refugees joyful despite persecution, say visitors
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (ABP) — Baptist World Alliance President John Upton was part of a seven-member delegation to visit refugees near the border between Thailand and Myanmar while en route to meetings this week in Malaysia. Upton, executive director of…
Missouri Baptist Foundation files second appeal
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — For the second time, the Missouri Baptist Foundation is seeking to appeal a Cole County judge's ruling that could force the institution to return control to the Missouri Baptist Convention. The Foundation filed a notice…
Baptists travel to Malaysia for annual meeting
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) – Baptist leaders from around the world are traveling this weekend to Malaysia for an annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance. More than 300 Baptist leaders and delegates will converge on Malaysia’s capital of Kuala…