A married Muslim abducted a 14-year-old girl on May 12, forcibly converted her to Islam and married her, exploiting her medical and mental health vulnerabilities to sexually abuse her, her father and his attorney said.
KABUL, Afghanistan (BP)--Pakistani police fired shots to control thousands of Afghan refugees massing Sunday, Oct. 21, at the country's border with Afghanistan. Aid workers project that as many as 1.7 million refugees from Afghanistan and surrounding countries are flooding toward Pakistan, fleeing the war and the worst drought in 30…
WACO, Texas (BP)--The pastor of two women on trial in Afghanistan said their home church is not fearful about their fate because they believe God will sustain and strengthen them.
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Though the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11 shocked and stunned Southern Baptist missionaries all over the world, they report that God is at work in hearts all around them because of the crisis.
A LAST FRONTIER COUNTRY (BP)--Today was a day of mixed emotions (Sept. 12 in this Last Frontier location). I left the house feeling guilty that I was abandoning my family on a day when they needed me most. Overnight the world seemed to have become a dangerous place and human…
TULSA, Okla. (BP)--Southern Baptists continue to send large numbers of new career missionaries to serve in areas where the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ is unknown. But God's spirit is moving dramatically in those places, and the number of new workers remains short of meeting the opportunities.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Jason Lee has seen firsthand what the apostle Paul meant when he wrote, "I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase" (1 Corinthians 3:6).
NAIROBI, Kenya (BP)--Sharon Pumpelly goes to work every day knowing that 500 people in her country will die of AIDS before the sun sets.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (BP)--As we walked on the pothole and boulder-ridden red-dirt pathway, my prayerwalking partners from the United States and I voiced requests for the Father to open the way for evangelism in a densely populated village outside Zimbabwe's capital.
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Africa. You know: the place where corrupt, crumbling governments abuse their citizens, where tribal groups attack each other, where everybody dies of AIDS -- if a bullet doesn't get them first.
NEW ORLEANS (BP)--More than 1,000 people were won to the Lord as hundreds of Southern Baptists answered the call of Jesus Christ to share their faith during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention June 12-13 in New Orleans.
