Amid widespread disgust with traditional politicians and an extremely fragmented electorate, Frepap, the political arm of a messianic religious group called the Israelites of the New Universal Pact, has emerged as a potential favorite in legislative elections Sunday.
U.S. Rep. Cori Bush introduced legislation Monday to grant permanent residency to Alex Garcia, a Honduran immigrant who has spent more than three years inside a Missouri church to avoid deportation.
The Vatican is calling for a new paradigm of care for older people after what it calls the “massacre” wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately killed people living in nursing homes.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Pastor Elisey Pronin watched as Russian troops drove tanks and carted military equipment across Ukraine’s eastern border into the Lugansk region and into his
As I write, Boston is just inches shy of breaking its all-time record of 107-plus inches of snowfall in a single season — and Jefferson City, Mo., native Randy Sprinkle and wife Nancy have been right in the middle of it. Randy
The Missouri Baptist Foundation has filed a motion with the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, to uphold a stay of a Cole County ruling last June that would turn governance of the agency back to the Missouri Baptist Convention.
The Missouri Baptist Convention is seeking to collect attorneys’ fees and court costs even as its case against the Missouri Baptist Foundation continues in the legal system. The MBC Agency Restoration Group reported to messengers to the MBC annual meeting on the status of the
PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. -- Understanding, intentionality and service were three themes that surfaced repeatedly in a dialogue among Baptists and Muslims April 20 as adherents of the two faiths shared a meal and their hearts.
The Pujols Family Foundation partners with a number of other St. Louis-area organizations -- including Missouri Baptist University -- to benefit people with Down syndrome and the poor in the Dominican Republic. With former Cardinals' player Albert Pujols' move to the LA Angels, the foundation
DALLAS (ABP) – A 10-member committee seeking a successor to Daniel Vestal as the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship executive coordinator met for the first time in Dallas in early January.