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North American Mission Board worker Mike McQuitty labors for the Gospel among students at Syracuse University in New York.

The North American Mission Board has published a correction to the data it provided the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force and was published in the GCRTF interim report.

A Haiti judge freed one of two remaining Baptist volunteers Monday but kept the group's leader in jail pending further investigation.

Hundreds of Christians were murdered by ethnic Fulani Muslims March 7 in Nigeria's Plateau state.

A mission team from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary prayerwalks in the middle of a Moscow winter.

With space at a premium, one evangelical church in Moscow meets in a working veterinarian's office.

North Metro First Baptist Church in Lawrenceville, Ga., has partnered with International Mission Board workers in Moscow to provide encouragement, something the missionaries desperately need during long, cold winters.

National Cancer Institute researcher Louise Brinton, who previously rejected a connection between abortion and breast cancer, apparently has changed her position.

Columnist David Jeremiah gives biblical guidance for finding God's direction for your life.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (BP)--In just 100 days, soccer fans from around the world will converge on 10 South African venues to watch 32 nations battle for the prestigious World Cup.
      Up to 500,000 international visitors are expected for the month-long competition, which begins June 11. This is the first World Cup to be hosted by an African nation. The United States will open play against England on June 12 after qualifying for the World Cup tournament by defeating Honduras last October.
      The U.S.-Brit matchup pits two teammates from the Los Angeles Galaxy against each other -- midfielders David Beckham for England and Landon Donovan for the United States. The Americans also are slated to play Algeria and Slovenia in the first round of matches.

DALLAS (BP)--Former Dallas Mavericks coach Avery Johnson, fired just two years after leading his team to within two games of the NBA title, told the annual NBA All-Star Breakfast that faith has helped him overcome adversity.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--In what some are already calling the "Tim Tebow rule," the NCAA Football Rules Committee is proposing that college football players be prohibited from writing anything on their eye black -- the very types of messages the former Florida Gator quarterback made popular with various Bible verses.

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (BP)--Oklahoma Baptist racked up a dozen hits and grabbed a 10-4 win over Bacone in Muskogee March 2.

LUBBOCK, Texas (BP)--Tweety Carter scored 18 points to lead No. 21 Baylor to an 86-68 win over Texas Tech March 2, the Bears' sixth win in seven games.

North American Mission Board missionary Jim Ballard perseveres through the Western terrain to share the Gospel with people on U.S. soil who have not met Jesus.

Evangelical Christians believe in both their responsibility to share the Gospel of Christ for the purpose of conversion and others' freedom to accept or reject that witness, Richard Land said a conference of different religious leaders.

The Texas Board of Education, with its considerable conservative bloc, is set to address social studies standards in March, possibly meaning the rest of the nation's public schools could teach more about the influence of Christianity on the nation's history.

Sixty-one new IMB missionaries were appointed March 3 at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tenn.

IMB trustees held their board of trustees meeting March 3 and were urged to be passionate advocates for the Great Commission.

The GCR Task Force's preliminary report deals with some of the areas where Southern Baptists "are languishing in the task of the Great Commission," IMB President Jerry Rankin said March 3.