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  More than 2,000 victims of religious persecution named

  The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom compiled 2,000-plus names on its Freedom of Religion or Belief Victims List. But the names of millions of others who face persecution remain unknown.

  05/09/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Allen seeks to ‘bind up the brokenhearted’ after shooting

  More than 2,000 community residents and guests gathered at Cottonwood Creek Church in Allen to mourn, pray and comfort one another after a mass shooting at a nearby mall.

  05/08/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Suit against Pressler and SBC delayed until October

  The jury trial against Paul Pressler, the Southern Baptist Convention and the SBC Executive Committee has been delayed until Oct. 16.

  05/08/2023 - By Baptist Press Staff

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  Latino faith leaders push against DeSantis immigration bill

  Latino faith leaders continue to push Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to reconsider a sweeping immigration bill that, among other things, invalidates driver’s licenses issued to undocumented immigrants in other states.

  05/08/2023 - By Alejandra Molina / Religion News Service

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  Churches burned, Christians displaced in northeast India

  Rioting mobs have destroyed at least 40 churches and forced thousands of Kuki, Zomi and other minority tribes—most of them Christians—from their homes in the Manipur State of northeast India.

  05/06/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  More Americans pray in a car than in a house of worship

  Despite reports of declining worship attendance and religious affiliation, 6 in 10 Americans say that they pray, a new survey reports.

  05/05/2023 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Irving church steps up to the plate with sports outreach

  Members of Oak View Baptist Church in Irving have stepped up to the plate with opportunities to meet needs in their community and connect students to the life-changing love of Christ.

  05/05/2023 - By Leann Callaway / Special to the Baptist Standard

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  New books spotlight women’s leadership in New Testament

  Several new books are taking a fresh look at the roles of women in Jesus’ ministry and in the early church.

  05/05/2023 - By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service

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  Future Church 2030 Conference helps churches prepare

  Bobby Contreras encouraged attendees at the Future Church 2030 Conference to recognize not just the importance of the cultural moment, but important place of the El Paso region in that moment.

  05/03/2023 - By George Schroeder / Texas Baptist Communications

• On the Move: Broomfield, Christiansen, Ransom and Thornburg

  Pastor and staff changes noted for churches in Channelview, Giddings and Cameron.

  05/03/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Around the State: ETBU Great Commission Center opens

  ETBU celebrated the opening of its newly constructed Great Commission Center on April 28. TBM is seeking to help benevolence ministries and crisis pregnancy centers around the state provide diapers.

  05/03/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Groups brace for end of Title 42 immigration policy

  The upcoming expiration of a COVID-era immigration policy has communities and groups such as ministry centers bracing for a surge in migrants.

  05/03/2023 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press