Baptist Press (BP) is the official news service of the

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(SBC) and is headquartered in

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. Baptist Press is a ministry assignment of the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. Baptist Press is responsible for providing regular news releases about Southern Baptists, serving as the convention's press representative, and coordinating news operations for annual meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention. Baptist Press also provides news service to state Baptist papers.

Origins

The service was formed at the suggestion of the editors of the state convention newspapers in 1946. Since then, it has grown into the largest religious news service in the United States, based in

. State papers reprint stories and opinion pieces from Baptist Press to inform Baptists in the respective states about the news those editors deem significant for their readers. Recognizing its role to serve the broader evangelical community, Baptist Press seeks to carry stories and report news that is of interest to numerous like-minded evangelical readers. Baptist Press is funded by contributions from

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through the SBC Cooperative Program as well as through digital advertising.

BP en Español

Baptist Press also provides daily and weekly news and opinion for the Hispanic Baptist community through BPEE (Baptist Press en Español), a separate webpage linked directly at baptistpress.com and linked from the front page of the BP site.

BP Sports

BP Sports, formed in September 2000, was a division of Baptist Press that provided daily scores and sports features from the 56 colleges and universities affiliated with the SBC.Southern Baptist Convention - Colleges and Universities
/ref> The service also provided special features on professional athletes and coaches who use their position in sports to promote the Christian faith. The division has since been discontinued, but BP frequently provides faith stories from those involved in major sporting events such as the

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, the

Super Bowl The Super Bowl is the annual final playoff game of the National Football League (NFL) to determine the league champion. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the gam ...

, the

World Series The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, contested since 1903 between the champion teams of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). The winner of the Worl ...

, and the

College Football Playoff The College Football Playoff (CFP) is an annual postseason knockout invitational tournament to determine a national champion for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level ...

References

External links

Baptist Press
official website
Baptist Press en Español
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