Arab Baptist Theological Seminary
Posted by Jim on May 12, 2008
Street fighting in Beirut at the end of last week forced the closing on Thursday of the Beirut Baptist School, led to the postponement of a public lecture today at Arab Baptist Theological Seminary and enveloped a BMS World Mission staff member. Associated Press referred on Sunday to the past five days as the “worst sectarian violence since Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war.” AP reported that 38 people had been killed. Calling the situation “the country’s worst internal fighting since its bitter 15-year civil war,” BBC News reported that 7,000 had fled from the city of Tripoli.
The Arab Baptist Theological Seminary has sent around a flyer today updating the situation. If you are the praying sort, pray for those folk. There isn’t a very pronounced Baptist presence in the entire middle East and the seminary there trains pastors from all across the region- when they can get there!





