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6 days ago | 
julieroys.com | Ken Camp |Julie Roys
About 14,000 Afghans who came to the United States to escape the Taliban—including religious minorities who experienced persecution in their homeland—face forced repatriation in less than two weeks. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced April 11 the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Afghan nationals who relocated to the United States, effective May 20.
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1 month ago | 
julieroys.com | Ken Camp |Julie Roys
A Russian airstrike on Palm Sunday killed at least 34 people in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy in the deadliest attack of the conflict so far this year. Merritt Johnston, executive director of Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Women, said she received a video from a BWA Women leader showing a church service in Sumy interrupted by a bomb blast and shattering glass. “We are heartbroken by this violence and continue to pray for just peace,” said Johnston, director of communications for BWA.
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1 month ago | 
fggam.org | Dewey Moede |Ken Camp
Team Jesus, Please pray that a Biblical Worldview will prevail all over our great Country!What happened to a Biblical Worldview? We surely are upside down. Most Americans do not beleive in The Trinity! Read about it here!Sports gambling is an epidemic in America.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Randy Davis |Ken Camp |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Series: First PersonTopic(s): Cooperative ProgramFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Editor’s note: Randy C. Davis is executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. I love a good Cooperative Program (CP) story because Cooperative Program stories are ultimately about people. That’s one reason I love pastor James Suggs. He embodies everything that is great about CP.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Randy Davis |Ken Camp |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): Disaster Relief, International News, Send ReliefFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: MANDALAY, Myanmar – The power is out here. So is water, telephone, internet in this city of 1.3 million people where 80 percent of the infrastructure (roads, bridges, power lines) have been destroyed and between 40 and 60 percent of the buildings damaged or destroyed by the 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar’s second-largest city and the region around it on March 28.
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1 month ago | 
baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp |Robert Downen
Testifying this month against bills that would put more Christianity in Texas public schools, Jody Harrison—an ordained Baptist minister—invoked the violent persecution of her Baptist forefathers by fellow Christians in colonial America. Harrison, a retired hospital chaplain, hoped the history lesson would remind Texas senators of Baptists’ strong support for church-state separation and that weakening those protections would hurt people of all faiths. Instead, she was rebuked.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Brandon Porter |Ken Camp |Karen L. Willoughby |Scott Barkley
SOUTH BARRINGTON, Ill. (RNS) — David Dummitt, who became pastor of Willow Creek Church at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Sunday (March 23) that he is stepping down as leader of the influential Chicagoland megachurch. Shawn Williams, the campus pastor of Willow Creek’s South Barrington, Illinois, location, will succeed Dummitt as senior pastor starting April 1. Dummitt will remain on staff until July 31 to help with the transition.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Brandon Porter |Ken Camp |Karen L. Willoughby |Scott Barkley
GREENVILLE, Texas (BP) – A Texas director of missions has announced his plans to nominate Texas pastor Tommy Mann to serve as SBC second vice president at the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting this summer. Hunt Baptist Association DOM Jim Gatliff says Mann’s, “…refreshingly strong expository preaching, positive ‘can do’ leadership style … (and) his amazing ability to cast compelling vision,” have helped Highland Terrace Baptist Church in Greenville in its revitalization process.
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2 months ago | 
fggam.org | Dewey Moede |Ken Camp
Team Jesus, Pray with us that the violence stops and the sick and hungry get help! Lord have mercy!Baptist PressBy , posted February 28, 2025 in International News, PersecutionConditions continue to worsen dramatically in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 25.5 million people face the danger of hunger, a Baptist leader there said.
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2 months ago | 
julieroys.com | Ken Camp |Julie Roys
Seventy Christians were found bound and beheaded inside a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Lubero Territory of North Kivu in mid-February. Local sources attributed the attack to the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamist rebel group. Militants reportedly rounded up the Christians and took them to the church in Kasanga, where they were decapitated by machete.
