Bill Gothard has resigned from the Institute in Basic Life Principles after allegations of sexually harassing women who worked at his ministry and failing to report child abuse cases. His ministry had been a popular for thousands of Christian families.

Former pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas for 50 years, W.A. Criswell, is being honored in academic chairs at four Southern Baptist seminaries to model for new generations the verse-by-verse teaching that led thousands to Christ during his lifetime.
 

Russell D. Moore and Richard Pates asked two Republican senators in a March 4 letter to lift their hold on a bill that would authorize presidential appointment of a special envoy to promote religious freedom in the Near East and South Central Asia.

Lucas Aube is one of six missionaries featured this year in the North American Mission Board’s 2014 promotion of the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. The church plant he pastors is part of NAMB’s effort to help Southern Baptists start 15,000 new churches in 10 years.

Despite political unrest permeating their own country, Thai Baptists have looked beyond their borders to show compassion to victims of Typhoon Haiyan. After watching news coverage of the typhoon’s aftermath, Thongchai Pradabchananurat, president of the Thailand Baptist Convention…

Tensions rose to dangerous levels as Russian forces occupied Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in late February, but Ukrainian Baptists aren’t slowing down their ministry to a nation battered by months of internal crisis. In fact, they’re picking up pace.