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  Mexican Baptists in Hidalgo forced from homes

  More than 100 Baptists in Hidalgo State, Mexico, were forced to leave their homes in the villages of Coamila and Rancho Nuevo on April 26.

  04/30/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Kachin Baptist leader detained after brief release

  A Kachin Baptist leader in Myanmar who briefly was released from prison last week after 16 months behind bars was taken into custody again by authorities and continued to be detained a week later.

  04/24/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  More Christians join in urging support for Ukraine

  More than a dozen Christian leaders—including the executive director of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention—sent a letter to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson April 17 urging Congress to protect religious liberty in Eastern Europe by supporting Ukraine.

  04/17/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Kachin Baptist leader released from Myanmar prison

  Hkalam Samson, former president and general secretary of the Kachin Baptist Convention in Myanmar, has been released from Myitkyina Prison in Burma’s Kachin State.

  04/17/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Lott Carey expresses solidarity with Haitians during crisis

  Lott Carey, a historically Black Baptist missional organization, expressed “unwavering solidarity with the people of Haiti during this time of unprecedented crisis.”

  04/17/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Ukrainian evangelicals urge Speaker Johnson to vote

  In a March 26 letter, the Ukraine Council of Evangelical Protestant Churches urged U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson to vote on providing aid.

  04/12/2024 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  Baptist leaders urge House Speaker to support Ukraine

  Some Baptist leaders have written to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson—a fellow Southern Baptist—urging him to support Ukraine in Russia’s war against its Eastern European neighbor.

  04/11/2024 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Global religious freedom able to draw bipartisan support

  Elected officials who differ on most issues broadly agree about the importance of global freedom of religion and belief, two former ambassadors-at-large for international religious freedom asserted.

  04/09/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Questions surround killing of Kachin Baptist minister

  Unanswered questions continue to surround the violent death of a Baptist minister in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state.

  04/09/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Texans on Mission responds to urgent needs in Haiti

  Texans on Mission’s long-time ministry partner in Haiti shifted gears in recent days to respond to immediate hunger needs.

  04/02/2024 - By Ferrell Foster / Texans on Mission

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  Gaza Baptists ‘no longer have the energy to suffer’

  Baptists sheltered in the remnants of Gaza Baptist Church are so worn out they “no longer have the energy to suffer,” a leader there told the Christian Mission to Gaza.

  04/01/2024 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Christian medical ministry in Haiti repels armed attackers

  Nearly a dozen gunmen attacked the LiveBeyond ministry compound about 20 miles outside Port-au-Prince March 21.

  03/25/2024 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press