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  Mary’s House provides home for stateside missionaries

  When Mary’s House recently opened its doors to provide a residence for a missionary family, it marked a dream come true for Texas WMU and the World Missions Center at Southwestern Seminary.

  01/20/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Texas plane crash kills four from Tennessee church

  A plane crash in Lavaca County killed four members of Harvest Church in Germantown, Tenn., and left one person hospitalized.

  01/19/2023 - By Staff

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  Hunt defiantly returns to the pulpit after abuse allegations

  Claiming “false allegations” had ruined his life, former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt returned to the pulpit Jan. 15, eight months after allegations that he had sexually assaulted another pastor’s wife became public.

  01/19/2023 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Around the State: T.B. Maston Foundation sponsors student retreat

  Students from several institutions participated in a Young Maston Scholar retreat sponsored by the T.B. Maston Foundation for Christian Ethics.

  01/18/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  North Korea again tops World Watch List of persecutors

  North Korea returned to the top spot on Open Doors’ World Watch List after scoring its highest level of persecution ever, following an increase in arrests of Christians under its “anti-reactionary thought” law.

  01/18/2023 - By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service

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  Barber says sexual abuse hotline worth the cost

  “The cost of doing nothing” to combat sexual abuse far outweighs “the cost of doing something,” Southern Baptist Convention President Bart Barber said in a video on social media.

  01/18/2023 - By Brandon Porter / Baptist Press

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  Trump chides former evangelical supporters for ‘disloyalty’

  Former President Donald Trump is chiding evangelical Christian pastors who previously supported him but haven’t endorsed his new presidential campaign, accusing the faith leaders of “disloyalty.”

  01/18/2023 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Disaster relief crews respond to deadly tornado outbreak

  Baptist disaster relief crews responded after a line of storms brought multiple tornadoes in the northern and central areas of Alabama. Additional storms hit Georgia and Kentucky.

  01/17/2023 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

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  BGCT search committee accepting nominations

  The search committee is accepting nominations for the next executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas through Jan. 31.

  01/17/2023 - By Texas Baptists Communications

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  Abuse expert says church leaders have ‘utterly failed God’

  Trauma expert Diane Langberg believes many church leaders have yet to reckon with the damage done to abuse survivors where churches turned a blind eye to the suffering in their midst.

  01/17/2023 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Fellowship Southwest launches immigration service

  Fellowship Southwest has launched a program to help immigrants to the United States gain legal status.

  01/17/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Scholar applies King’s philosophy of truth in post-truth age

  Martin Luther King Jr. is known as a civil rights activist, a minister and a world leader who gained the Nobel Peace Prize. King scholar Lewis V. Baldwin adds other titles: ethicist, theologian and philosopher.

  01/16/2023 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service