Peter Smith, Author at MinistryWatch
The Southern Baptist Conventions’ top administrative body voted to cut ties with two congregations on Tuesday—an LGBTQ-affirming church in North Carolina that had itself quit the denomination decades ago and a New Jersey congregation it ...
Survivors of sexual assault in church settings and their advocates have been calling on churches for years to admit the extent of abuse in their midst and to implement reforms.
Bobi Gephart hadn’t planned to go to church that Sunday—not to the worship service where the pastor intended to make a confession about the oppressive secret she had carried for so long.
An unidentified person paid a ransom that freed three missionaries kidnapped by a gang in Haiti under an agreement that was supposed to have led to the release of all 15 remaining captives early last ...
Captive missionaries in Haiti found freedom last week by making a daring overnight escape, eluding their kidnappers and walking for miles over difficult, moonlit terrain with an infant and other children in tow, according to ...
A Christian ministry based in Ohio announced Monday that a violent gang in Haiti has released three more hostages, while another 12 remain abducted.
The discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada have prompted renewed calls for a reckoning over the traumatic legacy of similar schools in the United States, in ...
