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  ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ celebrates 125 years

  “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know, celebrates 125 years .

  06/19/2025 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Texas Baptists Ministers’ Dinner at SBC hears updates

  Texas Baptists welcomed 200 attendees, June 9, to a ministers’ dinner, held in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas.

  06/19/2025 - By Jessica King / Texas Baptists

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  On the Move: Broyles

  Pastoral change noted in Plainview.

  06/18/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Around the State: Wayland choir sings in Carnegie Hall

  Wayland Baptist University choir members, alumni and friends joined forces June 7, to present Gabriel Faure’s Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine on the Ron Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall….

  06/18/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  SBC Great Commission Resurgence Task Force files unsealed

  The voices on the Aug. 11, 2009, audio recording of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force exhibit enthusiasm and excitement as well as intrigue and concern.

  06/18/2025 - By Jennifer Davis Rash / The Baptist Paper

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  200 displaced Nigerian Christians slaughtered

  The 500 Christians already had fled terrorism at home and found temporary shelter in storefronts transformed into living quarters in downtown Yelewata. But as they slept overnight June 13, men identified as militant Fulani attacked from multiple sides.

  06/17/2025 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Christ for the Nations denounces alum’s ‘hateful actions’

  Vance Boelter allegedly killed state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and wounded two others. Evidence suggests he might have been motivated by radical opposition to abortion and a distorted belief in violence as an extension of spiritual warfare.

  06/17/2025 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Obituary: Larry Johnson

  Larry Johnson, former missionary to Peru and Mexico, died April 28. He was 90.

  06/17/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Many churchgoers participate in more than one

  Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost half of churchgoers are regular participants in congregations other than their primary one, either attending in person, watching online or on TV, or both.

  06/17/2025 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Churches targeted in Russian-occupied Ukraine

  Authorities in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region of Ukraine raided an unregistered Baptist church during a Pentecost Sunday worship service, an Oslo-based news service focused on international human rights and religious freedom reported.

  06/13/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Baptist Women in Ministry reflect on SBC women

  Baptist Women in Ministry met soon after the close of business on the first day of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

  06/13/2025 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  Effort to compel greater SBC transparency fails

  Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting messengers approved a new business and financial plan for convention entities, rejecting an amendment that would have required a level of financial transparency comparable to IRS Form 990 disclosures.

  06/12/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor