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  Pastor makes gains in postmodern Iceland

  Baptist pastor and church planter Gunnar Gunnarsson lives in a world of opposites and extreme contrasts in Iceland, where 90 percent of Iceland’s population say they are Christian but 10 percent or less go to church regularly.

  08/01/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Meriam Ibrahim freed from Sudan

  Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian woman spared a death sentence for apostasy in Sudan, met Pope Francis at the Vatican July 24 after she was flown to Rome by the Italian government following a vigorous international campaign to free her.

  07/24/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Hospice kit buckets bring comfort in Africa

  Hospice kits packed by volunteers and distributed through the Baptist Global Response “Bucket Project” is bringing relief to thousands of terminally ill people in Africa.

  07/24/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Students use ‘yellow card strategy’ during World Cup evangelism

  About 600,000 visitors converged on Rio de Janeiro and 11 other host cities in Brazil for the FIFA World Cup. But other visitors to Rio arrived with another goal in mind—sharing the message of Jesus Christ.

  07/11/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Anti-trafficking campaigner honored with BWA award

  Ilie Coada, a Baptist pastor in Moldova who has worked tirelessly against human trafficking and the sex trade in his country, has received the Baptist World Alliance’s Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award.

  07/11/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Miriam Ibrahim released, but can’t leave Sudan

  Updated: Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian doctor sentenced to death for apostasy, was set free after an appeal court canceled the death sentence, but she can’t leave the country.

  06/26/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Ukrainian, Russian Baptists still united, historian insists

  Baptists in Ukraine and Russia likely will maintain unity beyond contentious political elections and Vladimir Putin’s nationalistic aggression, but the United States could do more to contain the crisis, historian Albert W. Wardin Jr. said.

  05/23/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Ministry in Uganda offers hope to refugees from Sudan

  Eight years ago, a woman from South Sudan fled armed conflict in her homeland, seeking refuge in Kampala, Uganda. Today, she spearheads a sewing ministry that provides livelihood for refugees.

  04/22/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Michael Gott sees ‘holy desperation’ in Ukraine

  The Ukrainian crisis has kindled an interdenominational prayer movement in the nation, said a Baptist evangelist who ministers there and has accepted an invitation from Ukrainian Baptists to preach on a national day of mourning in Kiev.

  04/16/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Is support for Israel waning among evangelicals?

  Several mainline churches and international church bodies have passed resolutions on divesting money or boycotting products made in Israel because of its occupation of the Palestinian territories. But are Evangelicals dropping support for Israel, too?

  04/11/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Elevation of Ukrainian leader puts spotlight on Baptists

  Instability in Ukraine cast a spotlight on the former Soviet republic’s minority Baptist religious population with the selection of interim president Oleksandr Turchynov, a lay preacher at the Word of Life Center in Kiev, part of the Evangelical Baptist Union of Ukraine.

  02/28/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Odessa church group ministers amid violence in Kiev

  Updated: A mission team from Texas near violent protests in the Ukraine called for prayers that political unrest might lead to spiritual renewal in the former Soviet state.

  02/19/2014 - By John Rutledge