World News

Americans act as Georgian Baptists call for aid
By Robert Marus, Associated Baptist Press
Date September 4, 2008

FALLS CHURCH (ABP) -- Baptists in the United States and elsewhere in the world are responding with aid and prayers for their counterparts in the embattled former Soviet republic of Georgia.

BWA leaders request prayer for Georgia
Date September 4, 2008

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BWA)--Baptist World Alliance (BWA) President David Coffey and General Secretary Neville Callam are appealing for prayer for those affected by the conflict between Georgian and Russian forces over the Georgian breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Estimates are that more than 158,000 persons are displaced as a result of the fighting.

Russian Baptists meet nationally, despite opposition
By William Yoder, Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists
Date September 4, 2008

MOSCOW -- Despite local government’s opposition and harassment, the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB) completed its third biannual, national congress on schedule on Aug. 4, at a camp near the village of Rumyantsevo west of Moscow.

BWA births divisions for justice; scholars spotlight ecology, diversity
By Vicki Brown, Associated Baptist Press
Date September 4, 2008

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Concern for freedom and justice were on the minds of participants at two recent international Baptist meetings in Prague, Czech Republic.

Several dead in India after Hindu-Christian clashes
Date September 4, 2008

FALLS CHURCH (ABP) -- At least six people have died in clashes between Christians and Hindus in the Indian state of Orissa, Reuters reported Aug. 27.