Baptist Press Archive

Friday, October 25, 2019

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  • China frees Christian prisoner amid ongoing persecution
    by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, October 25, 2019 (3 years ago)

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    CHINA (BP) -- China has freed an imprisoned Christian but continues a reign of persecution including church demolitions and restrictions barring foreign students from worship, religious liberty advocates reported.

    China released house church member Gou Zhongcan Oct. 22 after seven months in prison, International Christian Concern (ICC) reported Thursday (Oct. 24). Gou, a member of Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) in Sichuan, had gone missing in March and was seen days later with several plainclothes police, witnesses told ICC. Police have taken into custody 150 members of the church since fall, 2018. Read More

  • Child transgender treatment opposed
    by Tom Strode, posted Friday, October 25, 2019 (3 years ago)

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    DALLAS (BP) -- Southern Baptist ethicists expressed their deep concern about the gender transitioning of children after a Dallas judge's ruling appeared to clarify no such procedure would be performed on a 7-year-old boy in a controversial case.

    Judge Kim Cooks continued the joint custody arrangement of the twin sons of James Younger and Anne Georgulas in a ruling Thursday (Oct. 24), according to news reports. She said both parents must agree for any gender transition treatment to go forward on the son at the center of the case. Read More

  • IMB values partnerships, Chitwood tells advocates
    by Ann Lovell, posted Friday, October 25, 2019 (3 years ago)

    Photo by by Nick Seitz/IMB
    RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- More than 155,000 people die daily without Christ. This is a harsh and unacceptable reality facing Southern Baptists, IMB President Paul Chitwood told a recent gathering of advocates near Richmond, Va. The lost -- those living apart from a relationship with Christ -- need people who will advocate on their behalf by praying, giving, going and sending. Read More

  • SBTC-ERLC partnership provides help on sex abuse
    by Tom Strode, posted Friday, October 25, 2019 (3 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Baptists in Texas received the benefit earlier this month of an alliance between the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention (SBTC) and Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission in the effort to educate churches about sexual abuse prevention.

    The SBTC partnered with the ERLC to make the ERLC's national conference -- "Caring Well: Equipping the Church to Confront the Abuse Crisis" -- one of the opportunities for sexual abuse awareness training for members of its churches. Seventy-seven pastors and volunteers from SBTC churches participated in the conference Oct. 3-5 in Grapevine, Texas. Read More

  • WORLD SERIES: Family before baseball
    by Todd E. Brady, posted Friday, October 25, 2019 (3 years ago)

    Washington Nationals pitcher Daniel Hudson did the right thing by missing a playoff game so he could be with his family for the birth of his third daughter, says Todd Brady. Read More