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MIAMI (BP) -- Police have arrested James Dawkins, a homeless man whom Lenoir had befriended and had been helping, and have charged Dawkins with first-degree murder.

WESTERN CUBA (BP) – As 2024 dawns, close to 5,000 people in Western Cuba are walking into the new year with new spiritual life found only in Jesus Christ.

PERRY, Fla. (BP) – Hurricane Idalia’s strong winds may have toppled the steeple on Lakeside Baptist Church in Perry, but the storm did nothing to topple the faith of Lakeside members.

SARASOTA, Fla. (BP) – Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) has been awarded $400,000 in funding from the Florida Disaster Fund to help the state’s residents with relief efforts following Hurricane Ian’s landfall in southwest Florida Sept. 28.

HAVANA – The church’s 19th century dome has been ripped open into the sky. Windows are shattered; floors have collapsed. Pews, which have held generations of devout Christian families in western Cuba, are now reduced to splinters in a pile of post-explosion rubble.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (BP) -- Two days after Category 5 Hurricane Michael made landfall on Florida's Panhandle on Oct. 10, 2018, Florida Baptists' disaster relief volunteers were there. Headquartered at Hiland Park Baptist Church in Panama City, volunteers were actively assessing damage, beginning to meet needs and sharing God's love.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (BP) -- Joshua Fidler walked across a field that had been covered for almost ten months by massive debris -- "a void that used to be our sanctuary" when he saw a page that had been ripped from a Bible in the cleanup following the fury of Hurricane Michael on Oct. 10, 2018. The pastor of Carlisle Baptist Church in Panama City picked up the scrap of paper and began reading God's words from Leviticus 26:12, "I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be my people."