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  Class-action suit filed to halt Ten Commandments displays

  Eighteen families filed a class-action lawsuit Dec. 2 to stop the display of a prescribed version of the Ten Commandments in all classrooms of every Texas school district not already involved in related litigation or subject to an injunction.

  12/03/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  African Christian leaders and health nonprofits fill gaps

  African Christian leaders attending a conference with faith-based health organizations called for countries on the continent to do more to replace U.S. Agency for International Development funds cut by the Trump administration.

  12/03/2025 - By Fredrick Nzwili / Religion News Service

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  Nigerian president declares security emergency

  Nigeria’s president responded to a surge in violence and abductions by declaring a nationwide security emergency, ordering the massive recruitment and deployment of law enforcement officers and armed forces personnel.

  12/02/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Coppell church’s Christmas Store serves families

  For one week each December, the fellowship hall at Valley Ranch Baptist Church in Coppell turns into a Christmas shopping destination through its annual “Christmas Store.”

  12/02/2025 - By Leann Callaway / Baptist Press

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  Review: It Became to Me a Joy

  Kathy Hillman reviews “It Became to Me a Joy: When God Shines Brightly through the Broken Places” by Connie Dixon.

  12/02/2025 - By Kathy Hillman

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  Operation Christmas Child volunteers go the distance

  Plymouth Park Baptist Church in Irving served as an Operation Christmas Child collection site in November. For many volunteers at the church, collecting the shoeboxes filled with gifts has become a Christmas tradition.

  12/01/2025 - By Leann Callaway / Special to the Baptist Standard

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  Obituary: LaVern Plett

  LaVern Plett, minister of education and denominational worker, died Nov. 11 in Dallas. He was 89.

  11/24/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Baylor football team Bible study yields baptisms

  Ten athletes on the Baylor Bears football team publicly expressed their faith commitments to Christ by being baptized in the university athletic facility’s hydrotherapy pool in early November.

  11/21/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Judge blocks Ten Commandment classroom displays

  A federal judge blocked 14 Texas school districts from displaying a state-prescribed version of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, citing constitutional concerns.

  11/21/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Muslim civil rights group sues Texas officials

  The Council on American-Islamic Relations has sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton for labeling the Muslim civil rights group as a foreign terrorist organization.

  11/21/2025 - By Ulaa Kuziez / Religion News Service

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  Report spotlights persecution in ‘authoritarian triad’

  Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela form a Latin American “authoritarian triad” where leaders exert religious persecution to maintain governmental control, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported Nov. 18.

  11/21/2025 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Review: Encountering Pope Leo XIV

  Managing Editor Ken Camp reviews “Encountering Pope Leo XIV: Baptist Reflections on the Beginning of a Pontificate” by Steven R. Harmon.

  11/20/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor