Pastors and ministry leaders on both sides of the Mexico-United States border are gearing up to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the immigrant caravan that began in Latin America and now is marching through Mexico toward the United States.

Leaders of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, the Southern Baptist Convention and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship condemned anti-Semitism and expressed grief over the loss of life in a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.

Candi Finch, a former professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, confirmed via Twitter she was terminated by the seminary’s trustees Oct. 17.

A Texas court dismissed several defendants and multiple counts in a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by retired Texas state district judge Paul Pressler.

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s trustees voted to uphold the trustee executive committee’s decision in May to terminate former president Paige Patterson.

The LifeWay Christian Resources presidential search committee is accepting nominations for a successor to Thom Rainer.

Paige Patterson, ousted as a seminary president for allegedly dismissing women’s concerns about abuse and rape, will teach a Christian ethics course at another seminary where Richard Land, former leader of Southern Baptists’ ethics agency, is president.

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Chuck Kelley announced his plan to retire at the end of the current academic year. He will continue to lead the seminary through July 31, 2019.

When Pastor Brett Capaci spoke to his congregation about a mass shooting that stunned his city one year ago, he likened it to a terroristic “9/11 moment” for Las Vegas—and he even evoked the tears Jesus shed at Lazarus’ grave in Bethany 2,000 years earlier.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s sexual abuse advisory study is “actively involved” in the first phase of its two-year process, and the SBC Executive Committee appropriated $250,000 for the study.

WorldCrafts, the fair trade division of Woman’s Missionary Union, has launched a new initiative to benefit the work of Lifeline Children’s Services and families adopting domestically or internationally through Lifeline.

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has asked to join litigation to defend regulation intended to restrict payday lending practices it considers predatory.