Presenters at a forum on the work, mission and legacy of George Liele at the Baptist World Alliance® Annual Gathering declared him the first Baptist missionary. Liele, a freed slave from the United States, planted the first Baptist church in Jamaica in 1783. Noel...
Five organizations were accepted as members of the Baptist World Alliance® by the General Council at its meeting in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Two groups from Haiti were accepted into membership. The Baptist Mission of South Haiti was formed in 1936 and has 50,000 members in...
Glen Stassen, the Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary in California in the United States, was presented with the 2013 Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award during the Annual Gathering of the Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) in...
A group of 16 participants attending the Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) Annual Gathering in Jamaica took the opportunity to tour a number of historical sites significant to Baptists on the Caribbean island. Visits were made to the site of the first Baptist church in...
A research fellow connected with Regent's Park College, Oxford University, in the United Kingdom, claimed that Jamaican National Hero Samuel Sharpe, a Baptist deacon executed for leading a slave uprising in the 1830s, was a prophet and martyr. Jamaican-born Delroy...
Baptists in Jamaica put on a cultural and culinary display to welcome participants at the Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) Annual Gathering from July 1-6. The more than 400 Baptists from 40 countries traveled to the Roaring River Great House where they were treated to...
Panelists at a session on gender equality and gender-based violence during the Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) Annual Gathering said that the church should address these issues within its midst and in society. Elsa Leo-Rhynie, former pro vice chancellor for...
Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) General Secretary Neville Callam said that the BWA faces four major challenges in its participation in international dialogues with other Christian traditions: different attitudes to ecumenism within the BWA family, the difficulty of...
According to Deji Ayegboyin, president and chief executive officer of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, the prosperity gospel has influenced a large number of Christians across a broad section of the Christian faith. "It is obvious that prosperity teaching is a...
Worship has always been at the center of Baptist life but "spiritual worship," as described by Douglas Weaver, has always been understood and practiced differently by Baptists. Weaver was speaking during the 8th Baptist International Conference on Theological...