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• The Baptist Paper2026-10-16✓ Read

  German churches launching child-friendly AI effort

  Germany’s main Protestant and Catholic church bodies have joined a children’s media association in launching an initiative “that calls for binding standards on artificial intelligence products used by children, including a code of conduct for developers and new legal obligations for providers,” Christian Daily International reported.

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• The Baptist Paper2026-10-16✓ Read

  Homeschool mom barred from curriculum reimbursement sues Oregon district

  Tessa Bulzan, a Marine Corps veteran, was working a six-figure job when an incident at her children’s school led her to leave that job to homeschool her children. The incident had deeply conflicted with her Christian beliefs, and she was determined to teach her children from a Biblical perspective. Never did she expect to encounter another barrier to providing her children a Christian education.

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• The Baptist Paper2026-10-16✓ Read

  Fire at Baptist church ruled arson; pastor requests prayer for accused man

  Smoke stains the sanctuary of North Knoxville Baptist Church, and the foyer is heavily damaged, but the Tennessee congregation says it is not going anywhere.

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• The Baptist Paper2026-10-16✓ Read

  Oregon school shooting and struggle to make sense of ‘unimaginable’ loss

  Around 1:00 in the afternoon on Thursday (Oct. 15), a 16-year-old shot through the locks on the doors to the Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. He then proceeded to kill three students and one teacher before a local bystander who’d noticed him enter the building shot him. As of this writing, another student and teacher are alive but wounded from the attack.

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• The Baptist Paper2026-10-15✓ Read

  Bringing hard questions to God’s Word to experience Him on every page, every day

  Mary Wiley is challenging women to spend every day in the Scriptures. As the associate publisher of B&H Publishing Group and a mom of four, she knows this is no small ask amid the busyness of life.

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• The Baptist Paper2026-10-15✓ Read

  Limited access to education? Resources? No problem. Cuba’s churches persevere, says Baptist pastor

  Despite limited access to theological education and resources, Cuban pastors remain committed to studying and sharing Scripture, said Cuban Baptist pastor, theologian and scholar Arcadis Solano.

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• The Baptist Paper2026-10-15✓ Read

  First person: The Pope, a cancer diagnosis and faith amid the unexpected

  Pope Leo XIV spent a peaceful night at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, the Vatican said Wednesday morning. The 71-year-old pontiff was diagnosed Tuesday with adenocarcinoma after doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung.

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• The Baptist Paper2026-10-14✓ Read

  SEBTS celebrates inauguration of Scott Pace as 7th president

  Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Judson College celebrated the inauguration of the seminary’s seventh president, Scott Pace on Tuesday (Oct. 13).

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