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BWA Women’s director to retire

BWA Women’s director to retire

Patsy Davis, executive director of the Baptist World Alliance Women’s Department (BWA WD), is set to retire effective December 31, 2015, after working in that position for 17 years. “She has initiated many projects and the global Baptist Women’s Day of Prayer grew...

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BWA Women’s director to retire

Baptists release freedom and justice book

Engaging the Jubilee: Freedom and Justice Papers of the Baptist World Alliance (2010-2015), is now available for purchase. The volume comprises papers by commission members of the Baptist World Alliance and guest presenters on issues of peace, human trafficking,...

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BWA Women’s director to retire

BWA represented at Synod on the Family in Rome

The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) is one of several global Christian organizations represented at the second Synod of Bishops on the Family in Rome. The gathering, which began on October 4, is in continuity with a similar synod in October 2014 and includes Roman...

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BWA Women’s director to retire

Missionaries evacuated from Cameroon after Boko Haram bombing

German-based Baptist mission agency, EBM International (EBMI), evacuated all its missionaries and volunteers from the Far North province in Cameroon following a series of bombing by Boko Haram. “Since January 2013 Boko Haram has started to kidnap foreigners in order...

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BWA Women’s director to retire

Nepalese Christians protest changes to constitution

Baptists and other Christians in Nepal are protesting changes to the country’s constitution that limits religious freedom in the Hindu-majority country. Nepal's parliament overwhelmingly approved the new constitution on September 17 by a vote of 507 to 25. Some small...

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BWA Women’s director to retire

Baptists aid refugees in Europe

Baptists are providing assistance to refugees who are streaming into Europe. An initial sum of US$15,000 was sent by the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) through its relief and development arm, Baptist World Aid, to Hungarian Baptists to aid refugees in that country. The...

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BWA Women’s director to retire

Pastors protest dam construction in India

Baptist pastors in the Northeast Indian state of Manipur are protesting the construction of the Mapithel Dam. The dam, part of the Thoubal Multipurpose Project, will utilize water from the Yangwui Kong River to provide irrigation for 21,860 hectares (54,000 acres) of...

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BWA Women’s director to retire

Callam calls on Baptists worldwide to unite

In a statement at the closing plenary session of the 21st Baptist World Congress in South Africa on July 26, Baptist World Alliance (BWA) General Secretary Neville Callam renewed a call for the unity of the worldwide Baptist family. In the address, Callam called...

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