Diana Chandler

PARIS (BP) – France and the United Kingdom are the latest countries to announce advances investigating social platform X for possible offenses including the proliferation of Grok-generated deepfake sexual exploitation images.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (BP) – Keny Felix, president of the Southern Baptist Convention National Haitian Fellowship, joined faith leaders from across the U.S. in Springfield Feb. 2 advocating for continued Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for Haitians and the humane treatment of all immigrants here.

KADUNA STATE, Nigeria (BP) – The Nigerian Army killed a key Boko Haram commander, at least 10 Boko Haram terrorists and more than 70 terroristic bandits in ongoing defensive maneuvers in northeastern Nigeria since Jan. 11, ABC News and others reported.

WASHINGTON (BP) – International adoptions that were halted for about 300 U.S. families can resume on a case-by-case approval basis after the U.S. State Department granted a National Interest Exception impacting immigrant adoptees from more than 70 countries.

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (BP) -- MercyMe lead singer Bart Millard had been depressed a dozen years or so by 2017. In the studio with fellow musician Tim Timmons, Millard just lost it.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – Registration continues for the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s inaugural Forces for Good Summit and Peacemaker Dinner Feb. 24-25 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

WASHINGTON (BP) – Grace Pierre Dowey, a 10-year-old girl living in a Haitian orphanage near Port Au Prince, knows she has a family in the U.S. She’s met her adoptive parents Ted and Ashley Dowey and her four siblings on Zoom, but that’s the extent of it.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) –When United Believers Community Church moved to the Hickman Mills area of Kansas City at Easter of 2011, serving the area where the U.S. Census Bureau counts more than 16 percent as impoverished was a priority.

KADUNA STATE, Nigeria (BP) – Nearly 175 worshippers were abducted Jan. 18 from three churches in Kaduna State in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, Christian advocacy groups reported, after at least 35 were killed in separate attacks on villages in the Middle Belt and eastern Nigeria.

WASHINGTON (BP) – Brad Robertson was a new college graduate embarking on a career in Washington when someone invited him to King’s Church in the fall of 2021. He’d grown up agnostic, shepherded by agnostic parents.