As world leaders continue wrestling over what to do about the spiraling global food crisis, Tony Hall, former U.S. ambassador for humanitarian issues, says he worries that Americans “have not yet developed the political and spiritual will” to tackle the situation.

06/20/2008 - By John Rutledge

Baptists in South Africa have come to the aid of refugees displaced by ethnic violence.

06/06/2008 - By Ken Camp

While China has accepted a very limited number of foreign-aid workers in the wake of the disastrous earthquake that devastated much of Sichuan province, Baptists and other Christians from the United States already were situated to help.

05/19/2008 - By Staff, Baptist Standard

An independent, nonpartisan federal panel’s failure to issue a recommendation to the State Department about Iraq reportedly is due to political division.

05/19/2008 - By Robert Marus, Associated Baptist Press