Wendy Ryan

BEIRUT, Lebanon (BP)--After meetings with the president and prime minister of Lebanon, Baptist World Alliance General Secretary Denton Lotz announced that Beirut, Lebanon, will be the site of the annual BWA General Council meeting in July 2001.

HAMBURG, Germany (BP)–A European “truth and reconciliation commission” like the one in South Africa is needed, said David Coffey, general secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, in his final address as president of the European Baptist Federation (EBF) Council. Because the Balkans wars of the 1990s, in large measure, resulted from centuries-old animosities […]

OGBOMOSHO, Nigeria (BP)–The leader of the Nigerian Baptist Convention has voiced support for returning mission schools to the nation’s churches. S. Ola Fadeji, the Baptist convention’s general secretary, according to an article in Ogbomosho’s Sunday Tribune in mid-July, said Baptists are fully prepared to take over the schools. According to the newspaper, some state governors […]

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (BP)–“People who go to seminary need to do so because of definite call of God on their lives, and theological professors must teach out of a living daily reality of Jesus Christ in their lives,” said Denton Lotz, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. Lotz listed various areas in which “reform […]

EDITORS’ NOTE: The following stories supplement those about the BWA General Council meeting carried by Baptist Press 7/26/99. DRESDEN, Germany (BP)–The Baptist World Alliance’s General Council, in a meeting with record attendance, approved plans to purchase a building in the Washington, D.C., area as its new headquarters and nominated a South Korean as the BWA’s […]

DRESDEN, Germany (BP)–The Baptist World Alliance General Council approved an additional $250,000 in relief assistance for Kosovo and urged Baptists in the Balkans and in member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to work for reconciliation. The actions were taken during the council’s July 11-17 annual meeting in Dresden, Germany. More than $750,000 already […]

DRESDEN, Germany (BP)–A resolution congratulating the G8, the world’s wealthiest nations, for approving a $100 billion debt-forgiveness package for a number of nations was adopted by the Baptist World Alliance General Council during its July 11-17 meeting in Dresden, Germany. The resolution passed with only one dissenting vote, according to BWA officials. BWA concern for […]

WASHINGTON (BP)–A prayer vigil on the steps of Australia’s parliament building and a Habitat for Humanity-type housing project are among the avenues of missions in action planned for the Baptist World Alliance’s 18th Baptist World Congress, Jan. 5-9, 2000, in Melbourne, Australia. Congress participants also will work with inner-city youth, visit hospitals, join Australian Baptists […]

DRESDEN, Germany (BP)–Asian Baptist leader Billy Jang Hwan Kim, pastor of the 7,000-member Central Baptist Church in Suwon, South Korea, and immediate past president of the Asian Baptist Federation (ABF), has been nominated by the Baptist World Alliance’s General Council to serve as BWA president from 2000-2005. The council, in its July11-17 meetings in Dresden, […]

DRESDEN, Germany (BP)–The need for spiritual renewal in Germany and the challenge of persecution in Nepal were among reports voiced during the Baptist World Alliance’s General Council meeting July 11-17 in Dresden, Germany — along with rejoicing for spiritual vibrancy in Cuba and various other countries. “Here where the great Reformer Martin Luther brought us […]