International News

(RNS) — Mike Huckabee’s journey to becoming the U.S. ambassador to Israel began 50 years ago.

LONDON (AP) — Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, resigned Tuesday (Nov. 12) after an investigation found that he failed to tell police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as he became aware of it.

NORTHERN ISRAEL (BP) – Burned, torn, dismembered bodies. Chemical smells. Even the noise. Yasmeen Mazzawi handles it all as a volunteer paramedic with the Israeli emergency medical services organization Magen David Adom (MDA).

PETAH TIKVA, Israel (BP) -- Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel one year ago, Send Relief has been working with Christians and churches in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. The generosity of Southern Baptists has provided hot meals and basic food boxes, medical supplies, trauma counseling and even bomb shelters, impacting more than 22,000 survivors of the war.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (BP) – Gaza Baptist Church is heavily damaged, perhaps beyond repair. Its 50 or so members have all fled to safer ground.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Ethics & Religious Liberty President Brent Leatherwood and Southern Baptist Convention President Clint Pressley submitted a joint letter today (Oct. 2) to both President Joe Biden and U.S. congressional leaders expressing Southern Baptists’ continued support for Israel. The letter comes on the heels of escalation in Middle East conflict and a few days before the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.

SUDAN (BP) – War crimes are evidenced among harrowing human rights violations including gender-based violence in the Sudan war, an independent United Nations Fact-Finding Mission found, while the war has forced as many as 165 churches to close.

WASHINGTON (BP) – The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission applauds the reauthorization of a bipartisan government group created to monitor and help improve religious liberty worldwide.

NASHVILLE (BP) – “Pray for the transformation of our nation,” Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary President Yaroslav “Slavik” Pyzh implored Southern Baptists at the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s trustee meeting Sept. 10 in Nashville.

KIGALI, Rwanda (RNS) — On a recent Sunday morning, a dozen people congregated in a home in the Nyabisindu neighborhood of Rwanda’s capital to ponder their next steps after the government shuttered numerous churches for noncompliance with health and safety regulations.