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Send Relief: Beirut

The blast that shook Beirut had the same power of a 3.5 magnitude earthquake and could be heard as far away as the island of Cyprus, some 150 miles away. So far, 5,000 injuries and 137 deaths have been confirmed,…

Open windows in Madrid allow missionaries to let praises ring

Quarantine. Lockdown. Unable to leave your apartment. Not exactly the ideal recipe for large-scale gospel sharing in difficult-to-reach Spain, where less than 0.5 of 1% of the population have a personal relationship with Christ. Enter God into the equation, though,…

That His Glory May Be Known

by Karen L. Willoughby—Reprinted with permission from Baptist Press— HAMILTON, Va. (BP) — “When I came here, we had a lot of money in the bank, and we needed to fix that,” said Steven Carne, pastor of Hamilton Baptist Church…

Refugee Crisis

NASHVILLE (BP)–Turkey's shores received the body of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi minutes after a small boat capsized while carrying him into the Mediterranean in early September with his father, mother and 4-year-old brother and other refugees from the Syrian Civil War.They…

Fleeing Across Borders

The SituationThe images and stories from the Middle East and Europe have been horrific—a dead toddler washing ashore in Greece, 71 bodies being found in a cargo trailer in Austria, and mothers passing their babies to those able to squeeze…

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