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  Fire destroys Burmese Bible school

  Fire destroyed a Bible school and other buildings at a Baptist-run refugee camp on the Thailand/Myanmar border April 28.

  05/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Churches attacked in Kenya, Nigeria

  Kenyan churches are tightening security after a lone attacker exploded a grenade inside an evangelical church in Nairobi on Sunday April 29, killing one person and injuring 15. Meanwhile, a string of bombings in Nigeria during Sunday morning worship services killed at least four people in Maiduguri and 15 in Kano, with many others injured.

  05/01/2012 - By Administrator

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  Disaster ministry leaves lasting impressions on Lancaster church

  First Baptist Church in Lancaster served as the staging site for three ministries to help families in the area recover from tornadoes that ripped through homes and lives there.

  05/01/2012 - By Administrator

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  Women find a friend in the Apostle Paul, Truett professor says

  Contrary to popular opinion, women not only have a friend in Jesus, but also find a friend in the Apostle Paul, seminary professor Todd Still told a recent conference sponsored by Christians for Biblical Equality.

  05/01/2012 - By Administrator

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  Theologian: Christians, Muslims believe in, don’t worship, same God

  Christians and Muslims believe in the same God as Creator, but the God and Father of Jesus Christ is not the God of the prophet Mohammad, a Methodist theologian told a gathering at Baylor University.

  04/30/2012 - By Administrator

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  Race & Faith

  Periodically, racial tensions that have simmered beneath the surface bubble up, some Christian leaders note, illustrating just how far-removed modern America is from the "beloved community" envisioned by Martin Luther King Jr.

  04/27/2012 - By Administrator

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  Ministry enables amputees to stand with hope

  Gracie Rosenberger her husband Peter founded Standing with Hope, a non-profit that provides Ghana's National Health Service with prosthetic limbs for those who might not be able to afford them.

  04/26/2012 - By Administrator

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  Is 2012 election the Mormon’s JFK moment?

  With his path now clear to the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney is on the verge of becoming the first Mormon to head a major party's presidential ticket, a new milestone in America's embrace of religious groups that once were shunned by society.

  04/26/2012 - By Administrator

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  Merging churches across racial lines demands work

  The historically black St. Paul Missionary Baptist in Louisville, Ky., and the predominately white Shively Heights Baptist merged to create a blended congregation in August 2009. It's worked amazingly well, but it's hard work, participants say.

  04/26/2012 - By Administrator

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  Veteran minister reflects on losses in African-American church life

  After more than five decades of ministry, George Harrison, pastor emeritus of First Baptist Church-NBC in Waco and a veteran church musician, understands what African-American Christians have gained and lost in the last half-century.

  04/26/2012 - By Administrator

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  Faith Digest

  The British government has fast-tracked a move to restore the rights of towns and cities to hold prayers as part of their official business, effectively overriding a High Court order to stop the practice.

  04/26/2012 - By Administrator

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  Exodus Ministries helps women put difficult pasts behind them

  Exodus Ministries, a non-denominational program for women supported in part by the Texas Baptist Hunger Offering, helps women leave their troubled past behind and start over.

  04/26/2012 - By Administrator