The limits of toleration: China’s crackdown on religion

The limits of toleration: China’s crackdown on religion

by | Jul 17, 2019

The crackdown, part of a broader effort in recent years to restrict China’s fast-growing religious groups, includes detaining over one million ethnic minority Muslims in internment camps in the far western region of Xinjiang, removing crosses from churches, conducting surveillance inside churches, closing churches and demolishing church buildings.

Baptist World Alliance affirms women, decries religiously-motivated violence

Baptist World Alliance affirms women, decries religiously-motivated violence

by | Jul 16, 2019

The Baptist World Alliance calls upon Baptists to “Repent from the teachings and practices” that “have prevented women from flourishing as human beings created in the image of God and full members of the body of Christ,” and to be open to the Holy Spirit’s power to provoke transformation so that Baptists might affirm “the God-given calling of women for service in the church.”