2001 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

WASHINGTON (BP)--One of the two Washington postal workers who contracted anthrax was a Southern Baptist whose wife is the church secretary at Kendall Baptist Church in Temple Hills, Md.

ISALAMABAD, Pakistan (BP)--The trial of two American women in Afghanistan has been postponed indefinitely, leaving their families and supporters wondering what will happen next.

PHILADELPHIA (BP)--When many Americans are canceling travel plans because of the uncertainties brought by the events of Sept. 11, Southern Baptist women and men from 10 states kept their commitment to travel to Philadelphia for the first-ever MissionsFEST in the northeast.

SAN FRANCISCO (BP)--Jesus' instructions to his followers to pray for their enemies and those who persecute them have posed a fresh challenge for all American believers since Sept. 11, but none more so, perhaps, than people like Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary student Bassam Qusous.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Christians living in Islamic lands are paying a price for the U.S.-led war on terrorism in Afghanistan as angry Muslims retaliate for what they see as an attack on their religion by the Christian West, according to a leading charity which monitors religious persecution, CNSNews.com reported Oct. 24.

KABUL, Afghanistan (BP)--Pakistani police fired shots to control thousands of Afghan refugees massing Sunday, Oct. 21, at the country's border with Afghanistan. Aid workers project that as many as 1.7 million refugees from Afghanistan and surrounding countries are flooding toward Pakistan, fleeing the war and the worst drought in 30 years.

KABUL, Afghanistan (BP)--Seventy people groups make up Afghanistan's 26.7 million people. Most of those people practice Islam and have little or no access to the good news of Jesus Christ. The largest group, the Pashtun, compose 48 percent of Afghans with 12.9 million people. Other large groups include the Tajik, Hazara and Turkmen. Some groups, like the Sindhi, have as few as 14,100 people.

EVANSTON, Ill. (BP)--As awful as anthrax is -- several people have died and thousand are being tested for exposure to the toxin -- the current national scare also provides opportunities for Christian growth and ministry. Here are 10:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Contemporary Christian artist Steven Curtis Chapman was in good spirits on the morning of Sept. 11. He had just completed an interview with CNN's "Daybreak" about the adoption of their daughter and later that day he and his wife, Mary Beth, were scheduled to receive the National Angel in Adoption Award from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption.

NEW YORK CITY (BP)--Six teams of volunteers armed with dust masks and special vacuum cleaners began work in homes of displaced Manhattan apartment dwellers Oct. 18 as part of the continuing Southern Baptist Disaster Relief response.