A Christian rights group is calling on Mexican authorities to investigate the disappearance of a 79-year-old Protestant missionary who has been missing for more than six weeks after armed men
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Gena Wilson, a missionary to Scotland who walked the 2014 New York City marathon representing cancer survivors, lost her third battle with the disease May 13 at home with her family in Beaufort, S.C. She was 51.
International Mission Board trustees heard recommendations Wednesday (May 22) from the firm conducting an external examination of IMB's handling of past allegations of abuse and sexual harassment and IMB's present policies and practices.
A pro-life student group has been told it can formally have a presence on Aberdeen University campus following a legal challenge.
Pope Francis told journalists Saturday that their profession has a great responsibility, the foundation of which should be humility.
Paul Chitwood shares about "hope-givers" -- among them Southern Baptist missionaries -- meeting physical needs on the Simon Bolivar International Bridge between Colombia and Venezuela.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin welcomed the opportunity for China and the Holy See to work together to “build a more secure and prosperous world.”
Pope Francis has given the green light for Catholics to organize pilgrimages to Medjugorje, a site of alleged Marian apparitions, though the Church has not yet given a verdict on the apparitions' authenticity.
Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago is distancing himself from the decision of a pastor who invited controversial preacher Louis Farrakhan to speak at his parish, saying that he was not consulted before Farrakhan’s talk.
Aasiya Noreen, better known as Asia Bibi, has arrived in Canada along with her husband more than six months after being acquitted of blasphemy charges and released from prison, sources said.
