The vote allows schools in Texas, which has more than 5 million public school students, to begin using religious material in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms as early as next year.
A superior court judge in Georgia overturned the state's six-week abortion ban Sept. 30 calling it unconstitutional .
The U.S. Department of Justice declared on Tuesday that the conditions within Georgia state prisons violate prisoners’ Eighth Amendment rights protections against cruel and unusual punishment. The d...
A Virginia public school district has agreed to pay 575,000 to resolve a lawsuit brought by a Christian teacher who was fired for refusing to use the self-declared pronouns of a trans-identified
ARDEN, N.C. — In separate trips to western North Carolina in recent days, Gov. Roy Cooper and U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis encouraged N.C. Baptist volunteers serving at Biltmore Church’s Arden campus, which is one of several churches in the region that has become a distribution center serving area residents impacted…
SUWANEE, Ga. — The Georgia Baptist Mission Board's Financial Services Committee announced a special allocation of $500,000 dollars on Tuesday, Oct. 1, specifically to support Mission Georgia's efforts to provide direct assistance to Georgia Baptist churches, impacted ministerial staff, and community support. In addition, the Georgia Baptist Health Care Ministry Foundation approved a…
When there’s not a lot you can do, you do what you can. Category 4 Hurricane Helene lashed out with high winds and storm surge in Otter Creek, a small community located about 20 miles east of Cedar Key, leaving widespread damage and power outages in its wake.
SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Cadaver dogs and search crews trudged through knee-deep muck and debris on Tuesday looking in the mountains of western North Carolina for victims of Hurricane Helene, days after the storm carved a deadly and destructive path through the Southeast.
The widower of the-late United Methodist Church pastor, the Rev Autura Eason-Williams, cursed the final suspect involved in her killing, Eduard Rodriguez-Tabora, to a life without peace on Monday,
This issue of A Public Witness explores alarming new moves to implement Christian Nationalistic ideas in Indiana and Oklahoma before considering a glimmer of hope in Texas.
Before the storm hit the US, the Salvation Army and Southern Baptists were already on their way to lend a hand. Faith-based groups make up more than half of the disaster relief organizations in the United States.
