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Children deserve the best, BGCT president asserts

Debbie Potter, newest president of the BGCT, addresses children’s ministry and more in a Baptist Standard interview.

12/08/2025 - By Calli Keener

Indian Christians call for religious freedom protections

Two thousand Christians gathered in India in November to urge the government to protect religious freedoms as violence and legalized discrimination increase in the world’s most populous country.

12/08/2025 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Religious dissidents subjected to mistreatment in prison

Oppressive governments not only violate freedom of religion by imprisoning adherents of disfavored religions, but also subjecting them to harassment and even torture during their incarceration, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reports.

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

District Court issues decisions for seminary and Patterson

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary remains dismissed from claims of defamation in a case involving the school and its former president, Paige Patterson, with the latter being allowed to file again for summary judgment, a U.S District Court decided.

12/04/2025 - By Brandon Porter / Baptist Press

Christmas means extra giving for churchgoers

For many churchgoers, Christmastime means giving time. Most say they regularly donate money and items to their churches as well as to local and national ministries and nonprofits.

12/04/2025 - By Aaron Earls / LifeWay

Class-action suit filed to halt Ten Commandments displays

Eighteen families filed a class-action lawsuit Dec. 2 to stop the display of a prescribed version of the Ten Commandments in all classrooms of every Texas school district not already involved in related litigation or subject to an injunction.

12/03/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

African Christian leaders and health nonprofits fill gaps

African Christian leaders attending a conference with faith-based health organizations called for countries on the continent to do more to replace U.S. Agency for International Development funds cut by the Trump administration.

12/03/2025 - By Fredrick Nzwili / Religion News Service

Around the State: HPU to build $6 million tennis center

Howard Payne University will soon begin construction on a new $6 million tennis center.

12/02/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Nigerian president declares security emergency

Nigeria’s president responded to a surge in violence and abductions by declaring a nationwide security emergency, ordering the massive recruitment and deployment of law enforcement officers and armed forces personnel.

12/02/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Coppell church’s Christmas Store serves families

For one week each December, the fellowship hall at Valley Ranch Baptist Church in Coppell turns into a Christmas shopping destination through its annual “Christmas Store.”

12/02/2025 - By Leann Callaway / Baptist Press

Operation Christmas Child volunteers go the distance

Plymouth Park Baptist Church in Irving served as an Operation Christmas Child collection site in November. For many volunteers at the church, collecting the shoeboxes filled with gifts has become a Christmas tradition.

12/01/2025 - By Leann Callaway / Special to the Baptist Standard

Ken Camp, longtime Baptist journalist, to retire

Baptist Standard Managing Editor Ken Camp will retire Dec. 31, 2025, bringing to a close a decades-long era of reporting on Texas Baptists.

12/01/2025 - By Baptist Standard Staff