Struggling financially due to declining contributions and the costs of maintaining aging buildings, International Baptist Theological Seminary wants to move from Prague to Amsterdam with a new focus on doctoral studies. By Bob Allen Trustees of the International Baptist Theological Seminary have proposed relocating the 63-year-old seminary from Eastern Europe […]
Daily Archives: August 29, 2012
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Two 60,000-pound Freightliner rigs filled with 20 pallets containing 320 rolls of plastic roof sheeting, wooden strips and nails are being deployed by Southern Baptists to the Louisiana-Mississippi Gulf Coast, where dozens of disaster relief volunteers will help victims of Hurricane Isaac.
On the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief workers and volunteers are in place to help Louisiana rebound from the damage of Hurricane Isaac, which has been heavy in some areas. One death had been reported.
Muslim clerics and scholars — including representatives of radical groups — have voiced support for a Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy. An official medical review, meanwhile, revealed she has mental difficulties.
Republican National Convention delegates have adopted a platform that takes traditional stances on several issues, proclaiming the unborn child has a “fundamental individual right to life” and calling marriage between a man and a woman “the foundation of civil society.”
A group of homeless people in Vermont known as the Little Flock of Jesus have collected $69.40 for a missions offering to plant churches and respond to church emergencies. Terry Dorsett of the Green Mountain Baptist Association likens the donation to the widow’s mites Jesus commended in the Gospels.
Though their daughter lived only 76 days, a South Carolina couple says “the joy has far exceeded the pain” and has used their tragedy to help other families in need.