Most read international news stories in 2019

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1 Tributes paid to Denton Lotz
'Many years of fruitful service' The Baptist World Alliance General Secretary Emeritus has died, aged 80

2 'Keep praying for Sri Lanka'
The President of the Baptist Union in Sri Lanka has thanked British Baptists for their prayers - and urged them to continue as the country struggles to recover from the Easter Sunday attacks

3 'We pray for you in your suffering’
Baptists worldwide have expressed their condemnation of the terrorist attack in New Zealand, and reiterated their commitment to religious freedom for all

4 South Sudan: windows of prayer
The peace deal signed by warring parties went unheeded. But BMS supporters can pray

5 Christian persecution 'approaching genocide'
A major new report warns the persecution of Christians worldwide is spreading, increasing in severity, and has now reached levels approaching genocide – raising the risk of Christians being wiped out in the Middle East

Baptist Times, 31/12/2019

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Practical, prayerful – how Baptists have responded to the war in Ukraine

An interview with Igor Bandura, Vice President of the All-Ukrainian Union of Evangelical Christian-Baptists

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Ceasefires in the Middle East: a beginning, not the end

While we give thanks for the cessation of rocket, drone and missile attacks, we continue to pray for longer-term peace solutions that are genuine, just, and leave no one vulnerable to the other in years to come, writes Alan Donaldson

Baptist scholar member of new Interfaith council

Professor Paul Weller, research fellow in Religion and Society at Regent’s Park College, Oxford, has become a founding member of the new Interfaith Council for the Security of Places of Worship in Europe

5 things we’ve learned from our ministry in France

As their time of service with BMS World Mission in France comes to an end, John and Sue Wilson share some reflections

New Christmas film 'relevant in the light of the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict'

Churches are being encouraged to show a short animation that highlights the significant link between the original Christmas story and the lived refugee experience being faced by those living in and around Bethlehem right now

Baptist pastor who stood against Nazi ideology honoured

A plaque commemorating Arnold Köster, one of the 'sharpest public, continuous critics of the Nazis in the Greater German Reich', has been unveiled as part of an Austrian church’s 100 years celebration

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