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Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, a Democrat in Oakland, introduced a piece of legislation that would reduce residential parking requirements for newly built religious institutions to allow for the construction of housing.

In cities with some of the largest Ukrainian populations in the United States, worshipers prayed for peace and an end to war Sunday (Feb. 27) as Russia threatened its western neighbor for the fourth straight day.

Harry Blake, a young civil rights leader, was among those at Little Union Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana, when mounted police burst through the doors during a memorial service for four girls killed in a church bombing. Blake needed at least seven stitches after police finished beating him.

It doesn’t require a personal connection with the country of Ukraine to pray on its behalf. But for many Southern Baptists, the ongoing invasion and fighting there has made it personal nonetheless.

According to a new report from The Lancet, at least 5.2 million children across the world are "COVID orphans" —that is, they have lost a parent or caregiver for a COVID-19-associated reason.

Santa Ana, California’s Second Baptist Church‘s senior pastor, Ivan Pitts, was stabbed seven times on the morning of February 24, 2022 outside is home in Long Beach.

Ken Andreen of Pennsylvania is being called an “angel” after saving a man from a burning house fire while delivering meals last Thursday in a Penn Hills neighborhood just shortly after 8 A.M.

Dr. Christine Darden, an aerospace engineer and the first African American woman promoted to the U.S. government’s Senior Executive Service, says Scripture reminded her that with God, all things are possible.