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  Nigerian pastor risks life to evangelize Muslims

  Pastor Eli Abdullah Tinau lives in the charred room that remains of his home after an attack by militant Fulani Muslims, an increasingly violent group accused of killing thousands of Christians in middle and northeastern Nigeria.

  10/30/2024 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  ‘I needed a miracle,’ living Christian martyr recalls

  As the young Sudanese child, Mariam Ibraheem never planned to end up in the United States, but God had other plans.

  10/29/2024 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  Commission reports worsening religious freedom in India

  Religious freedom conditions worsened considerably in India this year—particularly in the months prior to and immediately following a national election.

  10/14/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  BWA urges prayer and support for Lebanese Christians

  Lebanon is facing a mass displacement crisis amid escalating violence, despite a history of providing sanctuary for refugees fleeing violence.

  10/08/2024 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  Baptist witness continues in Gaza and Israel

  Gaza Baptist Church is heavily damaged, perhaps beyond repair. Its 50 or so members have all fled to safer ground. But the Baptist witness has not left.

  10/07/2024 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Save Ukraine seeks to rescue children, restore families

  In the past decade, Save Ukraine has rescued and returned to Ukraine more than 500 children who had been deported forcibly to Russia and Russian-controlled territories.

  10/02/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Correlation between persecution and corruption explored

  Nations identified as some of the worst persecutors of Christians also have some of the most corrupt governments, a new study by International Christian Concern asserts.

  09/30/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Displaced Mexican Baptists allowed to return home

  More than 30 Baptist families who were forced from their homes in Mexico’s Hidalgo State in April have been allowed to return home, a human rights organization focused on international freedom of religion reported.

  09/27/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Ministries in Lebanon care for displaced civilians

  Baptist ministries in Lebanon that receive Texas Baptist Hunger Offering funds are offering aid to displaced civilians caught in the crossfire between Israel and Hezbollah.

  09/25/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  China has no religious freedom, commission says

  China has tightened its control of religion, creating such crimes as genocide, mass arrests and enforced disappearances, the U.S. Commission on International Religious said in a Sept. 23 fact sheet, days after China released long-imprisoned American Protestant pastor David Lin.

  09/25/2024 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  ‘The devil is in the world again,’ events in Europe reveal  

  “The devil is in the world again” Constanze Stelzenmüller quoted a Catholic cardinal friend of hers as stating about growing tension in 2022.

  09/16/2024 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  Ukraine seminary leader urges prayer for transformation

  “Pray for the transformation of our nation,” Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary President Yaroslav “Slavik” Pyzh implored Southern Baptists at the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s trustee meeting Sept. 10 in Nashville.

  09/11/2024 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press