Days after Hurricane Irma killed at least 38 people and destroyed entire communities in the Caribbean and West Indies, Southern Baptist partners are on site assessing the most urgent needs for assistance.

Religious leaders in Nigeria are renewing their call for the government to pay compensation for the destruction of churches by Boko Haram.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson underlined the nation’s commitment to protecting religious and ethnic groups targeted by the so-called Islamic State as he issued his department’s first international religious freedom report since President Trump took office.

North Korea released a Canadian pastor who was convicted of attempting to undermine the regime of Kim Jong Un.

Archaeologists excavating in northern Israel believe they may have discovered the biblical city of Bethsaida, the hometown of three of Jesus’ apostles on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.

The Ebola virus left thousands of children in Sierra Leone orphaned—abandoned, isolated and alone. But the Hope Center provides these children safe haven.

Israeli archaeologists recently discovered 2,600-year-old artifacts they say offer further concrete evidence of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem around 586 B.C.

Elijah Brown, next secretary of the Baptist World Alliance and executive vice president of the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative, has joined other human rights advocates in urging international intervention on behalf of two Baptist pastors in Myanmar who have been detained since Christmas Eve and who could face up to eight years in prison.

Two Texas Baptist Men disaster relief leaders participated in an emergency preparedness exercise in Israel, where they advised Israeli official about mass feeding of civilians after a disaster.

Religious leaders prayed for London after another terrorist attack in Britain left seven dead and scores injured on the eve of the Christian holiday of Pentecost and during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Israel marked the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War June 5. The conflict had a profound effect on many Israeli and Diaspora Jews that is felt until this day.

Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist believes China is experiencing “one of the greatest religious revivals of our time.”