With up to 17 rooms to clean each shift, Fatima Amahmoud's job at the Moxy hotel in downtown Boston sometimes feels impossible.

PARIS (AP) — Paralympic triathlon competitions in Paris scheduled for Sunday have been postponed because of concerns about water quality in the Seine River after heavy rainfall, organizers said.

The first public Sunday of The Oaks Church was April 17, 2017, but the story began long before. Terry-Lee Kirkland moved his family to Louisville in 2012 so he could pursue his M.Div. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Their church family at Highview Baptist Church affirmed that God was leading them to plant.

ATLANTA (AP) — Jordan Spieth was in Colorado last week, just like he expected, only he wasn't there for the FedEx Cup playoffs. He had surgery on his left wrist that he believes will eliminate issues that might have bothered him longer than just the last 15 months.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man was charged with felony aggravated assault after an alleged glass bottle attack on two Jewish students on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, a city newspaper reported Saturday.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When the air raid siren bellows in the dead of night, the women in arms rush to duty.

ATLANTA (AP) — Carson Beck threw for 278 yards, including a pair of touchdowns, and No. 1 Georgia opened another season of enormous expectations by stifling 14th-ranked Clemson 34-3 on Saturday.

BOVINA, Miss. (AP) — Seven people were killed and dozens were injured in Mississippi after a commercial bus overturned on Interstate 20 on Saturday morning, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol.

JERUSALEM (AP) — A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus began on Saturday, Gaza's Health Ministry said.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Vietnamese doctor who has helped seek justice for victims of the powerful defoliant dioxin “Agent Orange” used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War is among this year’s winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards — regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prizes.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Weeks of flooding have killed nearly 200 people in Nigeria and washed away homes and farmlands, the country's disaster management agency said, further threatening food supplies, especially in the hard-hit northern region.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — More than 60 students were baptized during a special on-campus service at Ohio State University in Columbus on Sunday evening, Aug. 25. A group of Buckeye football players were among those who helped lead the event, which reportedly attracted a crowd of around 800 people.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) — Golfers and donors at the 21st annual Heritage Classic Golf Tournament on Monday, Aug. 26, gave $285,000 to benefit students at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. That money will go toward helping keep tuition rates as low as possible for students entering gospel ministry.

MACON, Ga. (AP) — D.J. Smith accounted for four touchdowns and threw for 320 yards and Mercer took charge early in a 63-10 win over Presbyterian in the season opener for both teams on Thursday night.

Your prayers, contributions, and support are making a tangible difference in the lives of young people in East Asia. The Youth Self-Defense Project, an initiative in Asia Rim, is a powerful example of how your generosity is impacting communities. For countless youth in the area, life presents significant obstacles.

PORTO, Portugal (AP) — Porto takes pride in its beaches, old churches covered in blue-and-white tiles and its famous port wine named after the city in northern Portugal. It’s also home to a different kind of church — located on its beachfront suburbs along the Atlantic coast near a fishing town known for some of the world’s largest waves. Parishioners attend in boardshorts, T-shirts, flip flops — even barefoot.

A  Boar’s Head deli meat plant in Virginia tied to a deadly food poisoning outbreak repeatedly violated federal regulations, including instances of mold, insects, liquid dripping from ceilings, and meat and fat residue on walls, floors and equipment, newly released records show.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico suggested Thursday that U.S. authorities made a deal with a Mexican drug lord who turned in himself and another capo, to get his brother transferred from a U.S. prison.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nick Castellanos hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the seventh inning, Brandon Marsh hit a three-run shot in the sixth and the Philadelphia Phillies built on their NL East lead with a 5-4 win over the Atlanta Braves on Thursday night.

BOSTON – Every summer, the North American Mission Board deploys college students throughout North America for an immersive experience on the mission field where they learn what it takes to live and share the gospel in daily life.

MAYSVILLE, Ga. — Maysville Baptist Church is a thriving fellowship of believers with two morning worship services that are characterized by many contagiously joyful Christians who believe in going into the highways and hedges with the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.

The first seven months of Yemile Flores’ Journeyman term have been busy — jam-packed, actually. This summer, she oversaw university students who served in Guadalajara, Mexico, as part of the International Mission Board’s Summer Sojourners program for college students. Flores is a product of Summer Sojourners, having served as a university student. 

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — Highlighting Lifeway’s vision statement, President and CEO Ben Mandrell provided trustees with practical steps the organization is taking to serve 300,000 church leaders by 2030.

Years ago, while meeting with a group of clergymen in London, someone asked Billy Graham what he would change if he could do his ministry over again. Without hesitation, the famed evangelist stated that he "would study three times as much as he had done, and he would give much more time to prayer.”

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia conducted a heavy aerial attack on Ukraine for the third time in four days Thursday, again launching missiles and scores of drones that mostly were intercepted, Ukraine’s air force said.