The food crisis in Africa’s Sahel region is expected to remain critical throughout the summer, a United Nations relief official has announced. Southern Baptists have launched a relief effort and are asking supporters to pray for those who are suffering near starvation and for the workers struggling to help them.
Daily Archives: June 8, 2012
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A Southern Baptist relief worker reports on the famine in Africa’s Sahel, where an estimated 18 million people are suffering from food shortages and nearly 1.5 million children are near starvation, according to the United Nations. Villagers came to her and said, “We thought you’d forgotten about us.”
More than half of the pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention do not intend to use the name “Great Commission Baptists” in communication about their church, although 40 percent say they have not discussed the issue or decided, according to a survey by LifeWay Research.
Encouraging stronger churches to partner with declining churches and developing effective mentoring strategies to groom future missionaries, state convention leaders and denominational employees were among the topics discussed during the first meeting of the African American Advisory Council May 29–30 at the SBC Building in Nashville, Tenn.
A new blood test that might empower physicians to screen unborn children for more than 3,000 genetic disorders will result in a “death sentence” for many, a Southern Baptist bioethicist says.
Nigerian soldiers were responsible for at least eight of 21 deaths after a suicide bombing of two churches Sunday, June 3, local sources claim, according to a Compass Direct News June 7 report. Many of those injured from the blast and alleged military shooting have been in critical condition.
An increasing acceptance of homosexual lifestyles has led a New York state appellate court to join a growing list of courts that have ruled it’s no longer defamatory to be falsely called “gay.”