by Paul Montacute | Sep 6, 2006 | Opinion
We are overwhelmed by statistics. This year, 11 million children under the age of 5 will die from preventable diseases. Forty million people are HIV positive worldwide. Those living in extreme poverty, which means that they survive on less than U.S. $1 a day, number...
by Robert Parham | Dec 28, 2005 | Opinion
Time Magazine named Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates as their persons of year 2005, recognizing them as global Good Samaritans committed to ridding the world of poverty, disease and indifference. Baptists have their own global Good Samaritan. He lacks Bono’s rock...
by Paul Montacute | May 11, 2005 | News
Baptist leaders from tsunami-affected areas met with representatives of Baptist relief and mission agencies May 6-7 in Bangkok, Thailand, to review the help being given. The roundtable was co-sponsored by Baptist World Aid, the relief-and-development arm of the...
by Paul Montacute | Mar 9, 2005 | Opinion
“From Relief to Relive”–that was the slogan in the Chennai, India, offices of Baptist World Aid partner, the Churches Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA). Two months after the devastating Dec. 26 tsunamis, the recovery work is moving on from relief to...
by Robert Parham | Mar 1, 2005 | Opinion
CHENNAI, India–While many Christians from America and elsewhere have responded generously with gifts to relief efforts since the Dec. 26 tsunami, how many would borrow money for victims without knowing how they would be able to repay the loan? It’s par for...
