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  'Start from within': Asia Conference on Church & Mission closes with call to transformation, beginning at the top

  The Asia Conference on Church & Mission concluded Thursday evening in Alabang, Metro Manila, with delegates from 25 nations pressed to leave not with good intentions but with a named commitment — a specific congregation or community they would personally shepherd toward disciple-making in the year ahead.

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  Retired Nigerian Archbishop appointed as the head of the Anglican Church of Chad

  North Africa’s Anglican Church, Alexandria Province, has announced the enthronement of Archbishop Benjamin Kwashi of Nigeria, as the new archbishop for the Anglican Church in the Republic of Chad.

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  Family crisis in the church traced to a 'theological failure,' ACCM panel warns

  Closing out the Asia Conference on Church & Mission on Thursday, a panel of evangelical leaders warned that one of the most serious failures in the global church is hiding in plain sight: the systematic displacement of parents as the primary disciplers of their own children.

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  Willy Rice elected Southern Baptist Convention president on first ballot

  Florida Pastor Willy Rice was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday, succeeding Pastor Clint Pressley as leader of the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

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  ACCM2026 panel calls for shift from church programs to disciple-making cultures at church, denominational and national Alliance levels

  On the third and final day of the Asia Conference on Church & Mission, three church leaders from across Asia called evangelical congregations and denominational networks to stop measuring ministry success by attendance figures and program activity, arguing that the global church's failure to prioritize discipleship has produced a generation of spiritually shallow Christians — and that only a deliberate, relational, and intergenerational approach to disciple-making can reverse it.

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  Free evangelical church in Leipzig closes its café after suffering 26 attacks by radicals

  ‘Stay’, a café opened in 2024 by an evangelical church in the city of Leipzig (population of 630,000), will close at the end of June. The reason is the ongoing attacks and acts of sabotage by extremist groups, explained René Wagne, the pastor of Zeal Church.

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  The delivery system is you: Singapore pastor challenges Asian Church to embody discipleship, not just teach it

  A Singapore-based pastor told evangelical leaders gathered in the Philippines that the church's core problem is not organizational but spiritual — tracing most failures in ministry back to a breakdown in discipleship and obedience, and calling on church leaders across Asia and beyond to become intentional disciple makers rather than program managers.

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