Owner | Baptist Union of Great Britain |
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Founded | 1855 |
Language | English |
Country | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0005-5786 |
Website | www |
The Baptist Times is a website owned by the Baptist Union of Great Britain which reports on the Baptist Church in Britain.
It was originally a newspaper, printed from 24 January 1855 as The Freeman. [1] [2] From 24 February 1899 it was The Baptist Times and Freeman. [1] [2] In 1910 it merged with The Baptist . [1] It was renamed The Baptist Times in 1925. [1] [2] Circulation at its height was 35,000; by 2011 it had fallen to 6,000. [1]
It was the free church newspaper which had been published for longest, followed by The Methodist Times . [1] [2] Old issues are interesting to social historians as well as to historians of religion, as they contain news about current affairs and "poems, book reviews, stories for children and advertisements". [2]
It won the Churches Media Council's Andrew Cross Award for the best regional paper, for its production of a daily paper for the Baptist World Congress in 2005.[ citation needed ]
Due to falling circulation and difficulties of selling advertising space, the paper ceased print publication in November 2011, with plans for a retrospective to be published in January 2012. The website launched in 2012. [3]
In November 2019, an EU Watchdog uncovered evidence that The Baptist Times was among 265 media outlets which had been used by an India-based influence network to spread disinformation about Pakistan. [4] [5]