FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA - April 23, 2019) Today Rev. Dr. Denton Lotz, General Secretary Emeritus of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) and faithful servant of the LORD, died at his home in Forestdale, Massachusetts, USA, at the age of 80. The...
2017 DENTON AND JANICE LOTZ HUMAN RIGHTS AWARDNOMINATION FORM Purpose of Award: This award is given for significant and effective activities to secure, protect, restore, or preserve human rights as they are stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or in...
Mona Khauli of Lebanon is the 2023 recipient of the Baptist World Alliance’s (BWA) Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award.
(BIRMINGHAM, AL – July 17, 2022) On the final day of the 2022 Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Annual Gathering, the BWA presented the 2022 Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award to Daniel L. Buttry. Established in 2006, the annual award is given by the BWA for...
Praises Join us in giving thanks for the 2022 Baptist Women's World Day of Prayer ministry grant supporting the work of Hope House to serve women who are victims of sex trafficking, domestic abuse, and other forms of trauma. Praises Join us in prayer for leaders who...
Praises October 2023Join us in thanking God for the peace treaty in 1996 that ended a 30+ year civil war and for the commitment to pursue peace in the years since. Prayer October 2023Join us in praying for more than half the population that is living in poverty and...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA – October 8, 2021) In alignment with our commitment to respond to needs through aid, relief, and community development and to defend religious freedom, human rights, and justice, the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) is...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA – July 10, 2021) In conjunction with the 22ndBaptist World Congress, the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) presented the 2020 Congress Quinquennial Human Rights Award to Raúl Scialabba. The BWA has a long history of advocating...
Today we commend Christians in the Soviet Union, and especially Baptists, for their positive contributions, faithfully made in season and out, to their country’s morality, culture and history.
For many years the Baptist World Alliance has appealed to the government of the USSR to permit a larger measure of religious freedom for its people.
As the General Council of the Baptist World Alliance meets in Nassau, the Bahamas, July 1988, the AIDS crisis continues to escalate on a global scale.
The 16,000 cases of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) reported in 1985 are now nearly 75,000 in 129 countries.