Directors of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North Carolina voted recently to authorize funding for conflict transformation training in Sudan/South Sudan and the Philippines and to assist with creation of a Baptist Peace Fellowship of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Daily Archives: May 16, 2012
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An unusual sight — an 11-foot-tall wooden cross with hundreds of written prayer requests nailed to it — has been turning motorists’ heads and prompting some of them to get out of their cars during pastor Terry Long’s 100-day vigil at the busy intersection of Highways 63 and 613 near […]
When President Obama told the Justice Department in February 2011 to stop defending a key federal law that defines marriage as between r man and a woman, it was widely assumed the department would take a neutral position and sit on the sidelines. But with little fanfare since that announcement, […]
Chinese human rights advocate Chen Guangcheng remains under “de facto house arrest” in a Beijing hospital with his wife and two children despite his desire to travel to the United States, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith said May 15.
On May 15, the Baptist Messenger, the newspaper of the Baptist General Convention, reached a milestone few publications do. The Messenger officially turned 100 years old. Oklahoma’s Gov. Mary Fallin and Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb jointly declared May 15, 2012, as “Baptist Messenger Day” in Oklahoma through an official citation.