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  Around the State: BWA approves two new Texas Baptist institutional members

  The Baptist World Alliance General Council approved Buckner International and Baylor University as new institutional members of BWA.

  07/09/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Advocate dispels myths about persecuted believers

  Fruitfulness, faithfulness and vision characterize the persecuted church in many parts of the globe, an advocate for international religious freedom told a Houston-area Baptist church.

  07/09/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  SBC leaders respond to RNC’s potential public policy shift

  A release of the Republican National Convention’s platform reveals a potential shift in the party’s focus on a federal abortion ban—a change that drew reaction from some Southern Baptists.

  07/09/2024 - By Brandon Porter / Baptist Press

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  ‘Ladies of Camp Builders’ create special quilts

  The wives of Texans on Mission Camp Builders create fidget quilts particularly for nursing home residents and children with special needs.

  07/08/2024 - By Leah Reynolds / Texans on Mission

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  Camp Builders wives sewing for God’s kingdom

  While the hardworking Texans on Mission Camp Builders labor outdoors at campgrounds, their wives are hard at work indoors on creative sewing projects.

  07/08/2024 - By Leah Reynolds / Texans on Mission

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  Prayers urged as fighting intensifies in Gaza

  A Palestinian Baptist reported three Christians in Gaza have been injured in recent days, and the people were “terrified” but still reluctant to evacuate after the Israeli Defense Forces issued a warning.

  07/08/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Religion in schools legislation spurs conflict between faiths

  A fight is raging across the country, as conservative state lawmakers—often backed by conservative Christians—push faith-focused laws and run into opposition from other religious people and their secular allies.

  07/08/2024 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Baptists called to be peacemakers in challenging times

  Baptists from around the world discussed peace and peacemaking during the Baptist International Conference on Theological Education prior to the 2024 Baptist World Alliance annual gathering in Lagos, Nigeria.

  07/08/2024 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Faith and Gen Z: Lauren Beal

  Gen Z continues to report limited opportunity and hopelessness, but some Texas Baptist university graduates offer a different take.

  07/05/2024 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  California Baptists cut staff, citing giving shortfall

  The California Southern Baptist announced it had cut six staff jobs, citing an ongoing decline in giving.

  07/05/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Challenges to abortion bans on religious freedom grounds falter

  Some legal strategists have challenged state abortion bans saying they infringe on religious freedom by imposing a Christian understanding of when life begins. That strategy recently took a beating in the courts.

  07/03/2024 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service

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  Judge rules against Paxton in Annunciation House case

  An El Paso district court judge ruled Attorney General Ken Paxton violated the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment in his targeting of Annunciation House, a network of nonprofit Catholic migrant shelters.

  07/03/2024 - By Aleja Hertzler-McCain / Religion News Service