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Participants in an August meeting regarding the BGCT and NAMB relationship were (left to right) Rusty Shuler, NAMB church relations mobilizer; Ward Hayes, BGCT Treasurer/CFO; Dan Newburg, pastor First Baptist Church in Devine; Craig Christina, BGCT associate executive director; Dustin Slaton, pastor of First Baptist Church in Round Rock; Pete Pawelek, pastor of pastor of Cowboy Fellowship in Jourdanton; Julio Guarneri, BGCT executive director; Kevin Ezell, president of NAMB; Bobby Contreras, BGCT executive board chair; Chad Edgington, pastor of First Baptist Church in Olney; and Jeff Williams, pastor of First Baptist Church in Denton. (Photo / Dillon Hughes via Chad Edgington)

At their 2024 annual meeting in October, Missouri Baptists adopted an unchanged budget of $15 million and an unchanged allocation to national SBC Cooperative Program of 40 percent. (BP Photo)

At a Royal Ambassadors leadership training camp in Kenya, Josh Hernandez of Menard demonstrates a fire-starting tool, reminding the young men not to let their fire for the Lord go out. (Photo / Savion Lee / Texans on Mission)

A group of faith leaders, activists, law enforcement officials and families of murder victims called on President Joe Biden to spare the lives of about 40 inmates currently on death row in federal prisons.

Ten Catholic priests and a seminarian were murdered during the six-year term of former Mexican President López Obrador that ended Sept. 30, the Catholic Multimedia Center said in its 2024 annual report.

PHILADELPHIA (BP)—Bible-engaged Christians are the most charitable people in the United States, and giving increases happiness among the generous, the American Bible Society said in releasing the last chapter of the 2024 State of the Bible.

Almost 75 years after a couple donated 112 acres of Round Rock farmland to enable Texas Baptists to build a home for abused and neglected children, Texas Baptist Children’s Home has changed a lot, but one thing has stayed constant.

Abel Kent had one thing on his mind: Asking his girlfriend Katelin “Kat” Weikel to marry him. The pair were both sponsors of youth attending Royal Ambassadors Campout and Missions Mania at Latham Springs Camp and Retreat Center in Aquilla.

The demolished statue of Hafez al-Assad in the streets of Damascus, Syria, after overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime, December 16, 2024. (Photo/Pavel Nemecek/CTK via AP Images)

For the 10th consecutive year, death sentences in Texas remained in single digits, a year-end report noted. However, the report points to continued racial bias and wrongful convictions in the state’s administration of capital punishment. (Bigstock Image)