I was a pastor in Turkey and they branded me a political mole. In Spain, they brand me – and us evangelicals in general – as ideological infiltrators serving certain geopolitical agendas.

Spanish national Carlos Madrigal lived in Turkey for more than three decades. He comments on the government's response to the European Parliament's condemnatory resolution on the expulsion of foreign Christians.

We met in Barcelona with a simple but ambitious goal: to see that all evangelical churches in Spain have an extensive cross-cultural missionary culture.

God does not act on whims or take things lightly. There is a very deliberate effort to vividly and indelibly impress His true calling upon the church.

We must abandon the habit of trying to replicate our denomination in a different culture. We should strive to recapture the spirit of the early church, by identifying solely with Jesus.

There is no lack of mission-related passages in the New Testament; far from it. These are particular passages that provide a significant emphasis.

‘...and the Christian kingdoms against the Muslim Ummah’. Turkey's challenges seen by Carlos Madrigal, pastor of the Istanbul Protestant Church.