The Baptist World Alliance joins other Christian groups and organizations in protesting a new and ambiguous law in Bolivia that could make proselytizing illegal and put those who do so at risk of prosecution and imprisonment. In a letter to legislators in Bolivia, BWA...
Elijah Brown, the 9th general secretary in the 112-year history of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), assumed responsibility on January 1. Brown, the fourth American to lead the global organization for Baptists, was elected during the BWA Annual Gathering in Bangkok,...
The Baptist World Alliance 2018 Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award closes on November 30. Any Baptist individual, church or organization can submit a nomination, and any Baptist is eligible to receive the award. The award is intended to recognize and give...
Twenty one Christians were killed by Fulani herdsmen on September 9 in Plateau State in Nigeria. Samson Ayokunle, president and CEO of the Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC), told the Baptist World Alliance that 20 of those killed were Baptists while one was a...
Worship resource for Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Day 2018 is now available in English on the BWA website. This can be downloaded at www.bwanet.org. Other languages will be subsequently available for download. The observance will be on February 3 and 4, 2018,...
The Baptist World Alliance is responding to a series of weather related disasters on multiple fronts. The most recent, Hurricane Irma, devastated parts of the Caribbean and several southeastern states of the United States, especially Florida. The BWA is in contact...
The Baptist World Alliance has begun the process of accepting nominations for the 2018 Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award. Nominations will close on November 30, 2017. Any Baptist individual, church or organization can submit a nomination, and any Baptist is...
Beginning on August 10, the South Asian country of Nepal has been affected by devastating floods, compounding earlier flood rains in the month of June. Twenty-nine of the 75 districts in the Himalayan country were inundated by torrential rain. About 150 people have...
The Baptist World Alliance sent an initial sum of US$15,000 to Baptists in Texas in the United States to assist those affected by Hurricane Harvey. Harvey, which landed as a category 4 hurricane on the coast of Texas on August 25, has caused widespread destruction in...
Andre Bokundoa-bo-Likabe, general secretary of the Baptist Community of the Congo River and a former vice president of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), has been elected president of the Church of Christ in the Congo (CCC). CCC, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...