Black Church Collective joins diverse African diaspora in kingdom building
LITHIA SPRINGS, Ga. (BP) -- Charles Owusu, a Ghanaian pastor and seminary adjunct professor, appreciates the diversity among the many churches stemming from the African diaspora, including not only African American, but Haitian/Caribbean, Liberian, Nigerian, Ethiopian, Egyptian and others.
13 states and D.C. sue TikTok claiming harm to children’s mental health
NEW YORK (BP) – After a 15-year-old Manhattan boy died attempting to “surf” atop a moving subway car in February 2023, his mother found videos promoting subway surfing in a TikTok challenge on his phone, a lawsuit filed against TikTok alleges.
Supreme Court leaves Texas pro-life rule in place, national issue unsettled
WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. Supreme Court failed to intervene this session in a dispute over whether the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) requires doctors in the pro-life state of Texas to perform abortions to stabilize patients seeking emergency room care.
‘Wars and rumors of wars.’ Stress builds as Israel fights on seven fronts
NORTHERN ISRAEL (BP) – Burned, torn, dismembered bodies. Chemical smells. Even the noise. Yasmeen Mazzawi handles it all as a volunteer paramedic with the Israeli emergency medical services organization Magen David Adom (MDA).
Baptist witness continues in Gaza, Israel year into war as fighting expands
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (BP) – Gaza Baptist Church is heavily damaged, perhaps beyond repair. Its 50 or so members have all fled to safer ground.
Cooperative Program-fueled work fascinates annual meeting attendees
TUPELO, Miss. (BP) – “They had never seen anything like that,” Pastor Matt Powell said of the members of First Baptist Church of Tupelo who attended the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
Southern Baptists eye long-term Gospel relationship with Springfield Haitians
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (BP) – There have been no bomb threats for nearly two weeks in Springfield, a small town that became the center of the country’s immigration conversation last month.
Six-week abortion ban struck down in Georgia; ban reverts to 22 weeks
ATLANTA (BP) – A Fulton County judge struck down Georgia’s six-week abortion ban Sept. 30, declaring it an unconstitutional violation of a woman’s rights to “liberty of privacy” and the control of her body.
Mass rapes, torture, humanitarian crimes, church closures in Sudan war
SUDAN (BP) – War crimes are evidenced among harrowing human rights violations including gender-based violence in the Sudan war, an independent United Nations Fact-Finding Mission found, while the war has forced as many as 165 churches to close.
80-year-old retiree spearheads tiny-home build for stranger after fire
APPOMATTOX, Va. (BP) – Grover Hall’s childhood home outside Appomattox had seen him through 72 years of life. It’s where he lived as he drove big rigs for decades until an illness snatched his keys 20 years ago.
