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Home visitation brings hope to young families

MBCH Children and Family Ministries (MBCH-CFM) is committed to walking alongside families during some of the most important and vulnerable seasons of life. Through its Home Visitation ministry, MBCH-CFM serves pregnant women and new mothers with children from birth to age three, offering consistent support, encouragement, and practical resources that help families build strong foundations for the future.
Ethics

International adoptions resume on case-by-case approval basis under new exception

International adoptions that were halted for about 300 U.S. families can resume on a case-by-case approval basis after the U.S. State Department granted a National Interest Exception impacting immigrant adoptees from more than 70 countries.
Ethics

Visa bans halt international adoptions for at least 300 U.S. families

Grace Pierre Dowey, a 10-year-old girl living in a Haitian orphanage near Port Au Prince, knows she has a family in the U.S. She’s met her adoptive parents Ted and Ashley Dowey and her four siblings on Zoom, but that’s the extent of it.
Ethics

Trump, pro-life leaders at odds in recent developments

The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission released a letter today (Jan. 16) calling for President Trump’s action on recent issues that have brought friction between the pro-life movement and an administration historically supportive of it.
Ethics

U.S. Supreme Court hears cases of transgender athletes

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday (Jan.13) in two cases regarding state laws seeking to clarify competition in sports according to biological sex. Both cases (West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox) involve biological males challenging state laws which barred them from competing on female sports teams.
Missouri

‘We’re going to save lives’: Sen. Schnelting, MBC’s Fowler discuss 2026 pro-life ballot measure

Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Executive Director Wes Fowler sat down with state Senator Adam Schnelting (R-St. Charles) on Jan. 7 for a public dialogue about a Missouri ballot initiative that will aim this fall to restore pro-life protections to the state’s Constitution.
Ethics

Appeals court says defunding of Planned Parenthood can continue

The First Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with the Trump Administration in allowing the defunding of abortion providers to continue while lawsuits are ongoing.
Ethics

Christmas carol recounts tragedy, encourages us to protect the innocents

“The Christmas story is a deeper and more complicated narrative than we often give it credit for.”
International

2000 Christians call for religious freedom protections amid rising violence in India

Two thousand Christians gathered in India in November to urge the government to protect religious freedoms as violence and legalized discrimination increase in the world’s most populous country.
Ethics

HUD policies to be more friendly to churches in 2026

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it will be more open to faith-based organizations as it provides funding aimed at caring for the homeless in 2026.

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