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Intergenerational groups may be key to discipleship

A newly released report highlights intergenerational small groups as a key opportunity for churches to strengthen discipleship.

02/25/2025 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

70 beheaded Christians found inside DRC church

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.

02/24/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Texas Baptists evangelism team partners with Apartment Life

Texas Baptists’ evangelism director, Oza Jones, signed a memorandum of understanding with Pete Kelly, CEO of Apartment Life, Feb. 17 prior to the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board meeting.

02/24/2025 - By Jessica King / Texas Baptists Communications

Trump’s IVF executive order worries abortion foes

Americans are polarized on many issues in public life, from what books kids should be allowed to read in school to how to reform the nation’s immigration system.

02/24/2025 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

Mapping the way for IMB missionaries in Eastern Europe

With only a Bible and a team of three missionaries, one East Texas Baptist University student sought to transform one part of the international mission field through research and evangelism.

02/24/2025 - By Faith Pratt / Intern

Proposed plan emphasizes broader trustee accountability

A rewritten business and financial plan to be presented at the June Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting is designed to strengthen transparency and oversight for trustees who are approved to those positions by messengers, SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg said.

02/24/2025 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

Obituary: Levi Weldon Price

Levi Weldon Price Jr., Baptist missionary, pastor and seminary professor, died Feb. 19. He was 83.

02/24/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Ramsey cites lessons from pursuing artistic perfection

When viewed through eyes of faith, artistic beauty can awaken a hunger for a glory beyond anything we have known in this world, author Russ Ramsey told a crowd at Dallas Baptist University.

02/21/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Mob attacks 50 Christians at church in India

A mob attacked about 50 Christian worshippers gathered for a Sunday church service Feb. 16 in India’s Rajasthan State, an international religious freedom watchdog organization reported.

02/21/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Matt Queen attorney asks for probation and fine

A document submitted by the attorney of Matt Queen contains excerpts from 59 letters of support for the former seminary professor alongside pleas for leniency as his sentencing date approaches for lying to federal investigators.

02/21/2025 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

Ukrainian Christians still pray for just and lasting peace

Ukrainian Christians’ prayers for “a just and lasting peace” seem a distant hope, but God remains in control, said Pastor Igor Bandura, vice president of the All-Ukrainian Union of Evangelical Christian-Baptists.

02/20/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

National Network plans next steps to help immigrants

Less than a week after joining a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s reversal of a policy limiting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at houses of worship, leaders of the Latino Christian National Network gathered to plan their next steps.

02/20/2025 - By Aleja Hertzler-McCain / Religion News Service