At least 32 Baptist churches and just fewer than 2,000 individual Baptists have been affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in Nassarawa State and parts of Benue State in Nigeria. These are just the latest in a series of attacks. Previous attacks have occurred in...
Corneille Gato Munyamasoko, general secretary of the Association of Baptist Churches in Rwanda (AEBR), is the recipient of the 2015 Baptist World Alliance Congress Quinquennial Human Rights Award. The award, presented every five years, will be given in July in Durban,...
At its recently concluded meetings in early March, the Executive Committee of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) responded to appeals for an extension of the early bird registration for the 21st Baptist World Congress to be held in Durban, South Africa, from July 22-26....
The Baptist World Alliance is appealing to the global community to provide assistance to the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu following the destruction and severe damage caused by Cyclone Pam. The cyclone slammed into Vanuatu on the weekend, causing the most severe...
The 21st Baptist World Congress in Durban, South Africa, will include the discussion of theological, ecclesial, missional and justice concerns that affect the lives of Baptist Christians. The congress, normally held every five years, will be held from July 22-26. The...
At least 68 churches, two of which were Baptist, have been burned in the West African country of Niger. Panlieba Tchalieni, president of the Union of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Niger, reported that the church burnings, carried out by Muslim fundamentalist group...
Participants in this year's Baptist World Congress (#BaptistCongress15) in Durban, South Africa, will have access to extensive dining facilities that will be available at the congress venue. Studio 54, a South African event management company, will establish and...
The second session of the international theological dialogue between the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) and the World Methodist Council (WMC) gets underway in Singapore on February 5 and ends on February 10. The first session was held a year earlier, from January 30...
The Baptist World Alliance has reorganized the way it fulfills its mission through the United Nations (UN). The organization has expanded its partnership with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) to facilitate the coordination of its UN initiatives. BWA's and...
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) joined other Christian traditions at a Consultation on Believers' Baptism in Kingston, Jamaica, from January 8-10. The consultation was convened under the auspices of the Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions for...