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HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — Southeastern Seminary partnered with Fruitland Baptist Bible College and the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina to offer the Leading Through Preaching Bible Conference on Fruitland’s campus on Monday, May 6.
NEW ORLEANS — Contend, an annual apologetics event for high school students at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College, gathered nearly 300 students from 23 different churches for a one-day conference discussing apologetic issues impacting society today.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for Haiti is changing the way it operates in a move that surprised many as gang violence consumes the country. Instead of having a single council president, four longtime politicians will take turns leading the council every five months, according to two members who were not authorized to publicly share the changes because they had not yet been announced.
BANGKOK (AP) — Six months into an offensive against Myanmar ’s military government, opposition forces have made massive gains, but civilian casualties are rising sharply as regime troops increasingly turn toward scorched-earth tactics in the Southeast Asian country's bitter civil war.
RINGGOLD, Ga. — More than one in ten Catoosa County residents lives at or below the poverty level according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Many more individuals under 65 have no health insurance or find challenges paying for routine health care. Georgia Baptist Health Care Ministry grant recipient Tri-Med Family Care in Ringgold daily meets the needs of underinsured and non-insured people with either free or significantly reduced primary medical care services.
COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) — Forecasters warned a wave of dangerous storms in the U.S. could wash over parts of the South early Thursday, a day after severe weather with damaging tornadoes and large hail killed at least three people in the region.