Every two months, some 30 Peruvians — ranging from elderly adults to toddlers — convene in Iquitos, Peru, to pack into a crude metal bus, then a wooden boat to reach a jungle camp where the adults attend the School of Cross-cultural Missions, seeking to reach the Peruvian Amazon for […]
Daily Archives: June 29, 2012
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A federal judge ruled Friday (June 29) that churches and other faith groups can continue to meet in New York City public school buildings for worship services.
For Christians living in predominantly Muslim Egypt, the week of June 24 began with a heavy question: What does the election of an Islamic-fundamentalist president mean for the future of Christians in the country? That question rings as loud as the cheers that erupted from Cairo’s Tahrir Square when Egyptian […]
In the latest legal victory for pro-life crisis pregnancy centers nationwide, an appeals court has struck down a Baltimore, Md., law that would have required such facilities to post, in large print outside their doors, a sign saying they don’t provide abortions or refer clients to abortion providers.
Viola Blayton Brooks, the mother of newly-elected SBC President Fred Luter Jr., passed away Wednesday, June 27, at the age of 82. She lived long enough to see her son installed as the first African American president of the SBC in a historic election reported heavily by the press.
Jim Tatum, founder of the ministry “Suits for Servants,” died in May at age 85. He was an active member of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla.
Participants in the June 20-22 General Assembly meeting of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship considered what moderator-elect Keith Herron described as “life in the wrinkle of time between the past and the present,” as Coordinator Daniel Vestal was honored for 15 years of leadership and a strategic report to refocus and […]