Antioch Community Church leads Baylor students to assist Syrian refugees fleeing to the Greek island of Lesvos.
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“We kind of want to bridge the gap between the Baylor bubble and the Waco community and get students involved in something that’s bigger than them,” said Allison Carrington, president of Baylor’s Habitat chapter.
This month isn’t just December, for some, it’s Dressember. Dressember is a call, not only to wear a dress for 31 days in a row, but to give attention and funds to the International Justice Mission, which advocates against human trafficking.
In the wake of Thursday’s double suicide terrorist attack in Beirut and the following day’s tragedy in Paris, empathy and…
By Katie Grovatt, Reporter Waco group Friends of Peace has been taking huge steps to advance the local environment into…
By Katie Grovatt, Reporter Texans will be given the chance to vote on a proposed amendment that would give citizens…
Baylor Missions Fair shows off many opportunities for Baylor students to do God’s work
By Katie Grovatt, ReporterThe rules of politics are being rewritten, and Republican front-runner Donald Trump is behind it. He’s released…
By Sarah Jennings, reporter Almost all Baylor students are required to take foreign language classes, but few finish with fluency.…
By Rachel Leland, Reporter Journalism students interested in studying abroad will have to say “arrivederci” to the Baylor in Florence…
By Brian Bakst and Farai Mutsaka Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota dentist who has become the target…
PASLANG, Nepal — There is almost nothing left of this village but enormous piles of broken red bricks and heaps of mud and dust.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Nigerian troops rescued nearly 300 girls and women during an offensive Tuesday against Boko Haram militants in the northeastern Sambisa Forest.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that devastated Nepal on Saturday has impacted people worldwide, and the international community is banding together to aid in relief efforts.
This fall, student ambassadors will help 200 students from around the world adapt to Baylor.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — When Guled Ali Omar made up his mind to join the Islamic State group, authorities said, he wasn’t easily deterred.
In a month, a group of Baylor University graduates will travel to Thailand to teach at the Chitralada Palace School.
Vacations in Europe have a new attraction: the euro’s steep drop in value is making the continent much cheaper for tourists from across the world, especially the United States.
SAN ANTONIO — Immigrant children at a federal detention facility in Texas are acting depressed after months of regimentation and confinement, said a Honduran mother who was recently released with her 2-year-old son.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House announced Tuesday, a key step in his bid to normalize relations between the two countries.
Malia Obama is not your average 16-year-old: Her driving lessons were provided by the U.S. Secret Service.
Public anger spilled into the streets of the Kenyan capital Tuesday, a fury stirred by the seven-hour delay between the time authorities learned of a deadly attack by gunmen on a college and when police commandoes finally arrived at the scene.
Lufthansa knew that the co-pilot of the passenger plane that crashed in the French Alps last week had suffered from an episode of “severe depression” before he finished his flight training with the German airline.
SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France — A black box recovered from the scene and pulverized pieces of debris strewn across Alpine mountainsides held clues to what caused a German jetliner to take an unexplained eight-minute dive Tuesday midway through a flight from Spain to Germany, apparently killing all 150 people on board.
Here, in the Indonesian island village of Benjina and the surrounding waters, hundreds of trapped men represent one of the most desperate links criss-crossing between companies and countries in the seafood industry. This intricate web of connections separates the fish we eat from the men who catch it, and obscures a brutal truth: Your seafood may come from slaves.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to fend off a strong challenge from the country’s opposition leader in parliamentary elections Tuesday, emerging from an acrimonious campaign in a slightly better position to form Israel’s next government.
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus says the “Greatest Show on Earth” will go on without elephants. Animal rights groups took credit for generating the public concern that forced the company to announce its pachyderm retirement plan on Thursday. But Ringling Bros.’ owners described it as the bittersweet result of years of internal family discussions.
Trading barbs, the U.S. and Israel escalated their increasingly public spat Wednesday over Benjamin Netanyahu’s GOP-engineered congressional speech next week, with the Israeli prime minister accusing world powers of rolling over to allow Tehran to develop nuclear weapons. Secretary of State John Kerry openly questioned Netanyahu’s judgment on the issue.
Turkey and the United States signed an agreement Thursday to train and arm Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State group, said the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.
A suicide bomber trying to enter a police complex in eastern Pakistan killed five people Tuesday, officials said, in a rare attack on the relatively peaceful city of Lahore.