Articulos en Español by Mike Creswell

PARIS (BP)--A controversial new law on religion in France may not be the threat to religious liberty some critics had feared, Baptist and evangelical church leaders here say.

JERUSALEM (BP)--Secretly gathered behind closed doors, they study their Bibles. Professing belief in the Scriptures can result in violent attacks or worse.

Secretly gathered behind closed doors, they study their Bibles. Professing belief in the Scriptures can result in violent attacks or worse. They are hundreds of Muslims across Israel and Palestine who have come to know Christ as Savior over the past year. Small groups of new believers scatter across the troubled region as they share […]

SKOPJE, Macedonia (BP)--Southern Baptist missionaries based in Macedonia have appealed for prayer support as ethnic violence in this troubled Balkan nation threatens to dissolve into civil war.

      BERKOVITSA, Bulgaria (BP)--People once feared the Gypsy Ivan Zahariev. He was a criminal and sometimes vicious when he was drunk.
      Looking at Berkovitsa, Bulgaria, the little Gypsy town where he lived, you'd have been hard-pressed to expect more from him.
      It's a humble collection of homes strewn up and down a hillside; untreated sewage runs down the middle of dirt streets where in the summer naked children play.

Death, devastation, and suffering are as plentiful as dirt. Hope is a scarce and precious commodity. That's how a three-man team of Southern Baptist mission workers described life in and around Chechnya, the republic in the Caucasus region south of Russia. Many thousands have died and untold thousands have fled their homes after Chechen rebels […]

PULASKI, Ga. (BP)--Hubert Miles stood beside a nondescript harbor on the North African coast, lost in thought.

MINERALNIYA VODY, Russia (BP)–Death, devastation and suffering are as plentiful as dirt. Hope is a scarce and precious commodity. That’s how a three-man team of Southern Baptist mission workers describe life in and around Chechnya, the republic in the Caucasus region south of Russia. Many thousands have died and untold thousands have fled their homes […]

CHISINAU, Moldova (BP)–Valeriu Ghiletchi, elected to Moldova’s Parliament in 1998, was born in a Baptist family near Balti, northern Moldova. He became a believer at age 17 after attending the funeral of a Baptist youth leader killed in a car accident. “I don’t know exactly for sure, but there was some opinion that the accident […]

CHISINAU, Moldova (BP)--Valeriu Ghiletchi radiates confidence as he strides toward Moldova's parliament building.