News
March 17, 2008 | Fighting between Israel and Palestine continues, despite efforts to continue a dialogue to move peace efforts forward. The BPFNA Board of Directors has adopted a Statement of Concern regarding the ongoing crisis and calls on its members to take action in support of a just and peaceful resolution. Read more »
March 10, 2008 | BPFNA is a Partner with Christian Peace Witness for Iraq and a participant in the Mass Worship and Witness that took place in Washington, DC Friday, March 7. Bob Spinks was the Fellowship\'s staff representative at that event, and he filed this report from Washington. Read more »
March 3, 2008 | The Christian Peace Witness for Iraq (CPWI), an ecumenical coalition of peace fellowships and other groups calling for an end to the war in and occupation of Iraq, plans a major opportunity to worship and witness in Washington, DC March 6-8, 2008, and continues to call on local congregations and churches to organize their own events. Read more »
March 2, 2008 | United Nations experts on housing and minority rights have called on the US government to halt the demolition of public housing and protect the human rights of African Americans affected by Hurricane Katrina. Read more »
February 14, 2008 | BPFNA staff members Evelyn Hanneman and Bob Spinks have been in New Orleans this week at the annual meeting of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference. Here\'s their brief report on the final day of the meeting. Read more »
February 14, 2008 | BPFNA calls upon US brothers and sisters to turn the proposed US tax rebate into Jubilee bypledging to return to the poor half of the coming tax rebate. Read more »
February 13, 2008 | BPFNA staffers Evelyn Hanneman and Bob Spinks are in New Orleans this week, hosting an exhibit at The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference. Here\'s the second of their messages from that venue. Read more »
February 12, 2008 | The fifth annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference is a national gathering of predominately African American clergy, lay leaders and seminarians who are concerned with a wide variety of social justice issues. BPFNA staff members Evelyn Hanneman and Bob Spinks are at the conference, and they send this postcard from the event\'s opening day. Read more »
February 5, 2008 | Staff members Evelyn Hanneman and Bob Spinks represented the BPFNA at the inaugural meeting of the New Baptist Covenant in Atlanta January 30-February 1, 2008. Here is their final report from that event. Read more »