‘Learning Poverty’ Negatively Impacts Children Worldwide
A majority of the children living in low- and middle-income nations are experiencing “learning poverty,” according to a World Bank report published Oct. 17.
Baptists worldwide take low-key approach to religious-liberty concerns
Baptists generally prefer to handle violations of religious freedom through quiet diplomacy instead of media headlines denouncing “persecution” of Christians, said a freedom-and-justice specialist for the Baptist World Alliance.
Arab Woman Today reaches worldwide
By Bill Webb, Word&Way EditorAmman, Jordan — In some ways, Nabeeh and Ruba Abbassi seem to be going several directions at once.Jordanians, they are longtime Baptist missionaries in their homeland, ministering among a Baptist population of a few thousand in a land where it is