Diana Chandler

COLERAINE, Northern Ireland (BP) – A retired Baptist pastor is the latest Christian convicted for religious activity in an abortion buffer zone in the United Kingdom, this time for holding a church service on the outskirts of a zone.

RUCKERSVILLE, Va. (BP) – Aaron Evans was fresh from viewing an Auschwitz exhibit at the Reagan Library on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Israel since the Holocaust.

WASHINGTON (BP) – The Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate (ROC-MP) is helping the Russian government kidnap, house and falsely indoctrinate Ukrainian children, according to expert testimony before the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has stayed a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals nationwide ban on mail-order abortion pills, the main mode of pregnancy termination in the U.S.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (BP) – Southern Baptists are among many who will pray in churches, businesses and the public square May 7 on the 75th anniversary of the National Day of Prayer (NDP), months ahead of the nation’s semiquincentennial.

WASHINGTON (BP) – Haitian pastor Keny Felix professed terror to Baptist Press regarding the future prospects for the 1.3 million immigrants living in the U.S. under temporary protected status (TPS).

WASHINGTON (BP) – A Christian pro-life pregnancy resource center can fight in federal court the state of New Jersey’s order to submit a broad spectrum of documents including the identity of financial donors, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously April 29th.

HORTENSE, Ga. (BP) – Up to an inch of rain fell on the Highway 82 wildfire April 26, days after Twin Rivers Baptist Church and others began praying for rain, helping contain the most destructive of the largest blazes burning southeast Georgia.

HORTENSE, Ga. (BP) – Praying for rain is ever on the minds of Twin Rivers Baptist Church members in the rural farming community of Hortense. But April 22, the church held an actual “pray for rain” service as the Highway 82 wildfire spread.

RIO DE JANEIRO (BP) – In the original “Flywheel,” a young Alex Kendrick portrays a dishonest used car salesman who encounters Rutha Mae Harris, an African American straight-talking customer who encourages honesty after his come-to-Jesus moment.