News Articles by Mary E. Speidel

VITORIA, Brazil (BP)–Missionary Scott Pittman opens the gate and walks into the dusty front yard. Maria Luzia dos Santos and her daughter, Rafaela, 7, greet him in Portuguese.They’ve been expecting Pittman, who works with New Palestine Baptist Mission near their home in a Vitoria, Brazil, “favela” (slum). He’s here to talk with Rafaela about her […]

MANTANZAS, Cuba (BP)--Sitting outdoors at the Baptist camp near Mantanzas, Cuba, Nilo Dominguez points to some nearby palm trees.

VITORIA, Brazil (BP)--When Regina Celia Texeira Carvalho talks about her family, her choice of words speaks volumes. "They are nauseated by me," she says. Why? Carvalho has AIDS. When she had a miscarriage, she says, the man she lived with left her. She started losing weight. Later a blood test showed she had the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) -- the virus that causes AIDS

VITORIA, Brazil (BP)--"Mommy, what a pretty girl!" exclaimed 10-year-old Katie Gray, as she passed by a patient's room at House of Hope.