The 16th Baptist Youth World Conference in Singapore kicked off with 15 seconds of energetic drumming by the Okinawa Power Drummers from Japan followed by a four-minute set by the conference band led by Vesekhoyi "Vee" Tetseo, playing the theme song REACH!, an...
Baptist youth from more than 60 countries are traveling to Singapore for the 16th Baptist Youth World Conference from July 17-21. The event, planned and sponsored by the Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) and held every five years, has opportunities for worship,...
A session in honor of Duke McCall, president of the Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) from 1980-1985, was held during the BWA Annual Gathering in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, from July 1-6. A resolution passed by the General Council, which convened during the Gathering, commends...
The Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) is urging its member organizations to protect children from sexual abuse. Baptists should take "urgent action to implement measures to protect children from abuse, support their physical and emotional welfare, and respond to...
The General Council of the Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) passed a resolution asking the government of the United States to lift its long standing embargo on Cuba. The US embargo against Cuba was first imposed in October 1960, was strengthened in 1962 and codified into...
Baptists in South Africa are making preparations to host thousands of Baptists from around the globe during the 21st Baptist World Congress in the city of Durban in July 2015. "We want people to have the ubuntu experience," said Paul Msiza, a vice president of the...
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...