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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  Texans on Mission ‘came to the rescue’ in Uganda

  After a mudslide destroyed homes in Uganda, the government asked Texans and Ugandans on Mission to provide meals for displaced families.

  02/19/2025 - By Ferrell Foster / Texans on Mission

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  Finding God at HPU: Blaine Onick

  Blaine Onick came to Howard Payne University to play golf, but what he found was much greater than any sport could give him: Jesus.

  02/19/2025 - By HPU Communications Staff

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  Abuse database not a present focus for SBC leaders

  A proposed online database that would list the names of abusive Southern Baptist pastors is now on hold, with no names likely to be added to the website by the denomination’s annual meeting this summer.

  02/19/2025 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service