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Dan Patrick to chair Trump’s religious liberty commission

President Donald Trump named Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick as chair of his administration’s newly created commission on religious liberty.

05/02/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Hispanic Baptist ministry trailblazer Bobby Sena retires

Bobby Sena, a trailblazer in Hispanic ministry in the SBC, is retiring.

05/02/2025 - By Clara Molina / Baptist Press

International missionaries face new restrictions in China

The Chinese Communist Party enacted new restrictions on foreign missionaries there May 1, preventing them from preaching, evangelizing and establishing various religious organizations among other activities without official government approval.

05/02/2025 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Study links flourishing to religious service attendance

An international survey reveals a strong correlation between regular attendance at religious services and higher levels of individual flourishing.

05/01/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Court considers taxpayer-funded religious charter school

Whether taxpayers should be forced to fund religious charter schools came before the U.S. Supreme Court April 30 in the first case of its kind.

05/01/2025 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

SBC membership continues decline but baptisms rising

The number of Southern Baptists in the United States is the lowest it has been in 50 years, but more of them seem to be showing up in church. And the number of baptisms in the SBC continues to rebound from the lows of the COVID-19 pandemic.

05/01/2025 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

House committee holds Ten Commandments bill hearing

In a sometimes-testy late-night hearing that continued into the early-morning hours on April 30, the Texas House Committee on Public Education heard public testimony on a bill mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in every public-school classroom.

04/30/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor