WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Nearly 70 percent of the world's 6.8 billion people live in countries with high restrictions on religion, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Arthur Simon tells the story of Bread for the World, a "citizen's outcry against hunger," as the ultimate insider. He was Bread's founder, its first president from 1974 until his retirement in 1991 and after that its president emeritus.
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acking Christmas boxes may seem out of place during the season of pumpkins and colored leaves, but that is what hundreds of Missouri Baptists, including several St. Louis churches, are doing.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP)--Forty-two member institutions of the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities have been listed in the 2009 rankings of America's Best Colleges by U.S. News and World Report and Forbes.com.
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By Jennifer Harris Word&Way News Writer Fourteen college students from Fee Fee Baptist Church, Bridgeton, recently participated in an international World Changers mission trip to Mazatlan, Mexico. The students participated in door-to-door evangelism, presenting the gospel to 8,000-9,000 people in their homes, Fee
WASHINGTON — Baptists’ signal contribution to American and world history and political thought, historians almost unanimously agree, is their uncompromising emphasis on religious liberty.