Fifty years ago, on July 9, 1976, I landed in Frankfurt am Main with my family. A Lufthansa plane had flown us from Moscow to Germany. “To freedom”—as people said. My parents had been waiting for an exit permit since 1956. Now the time had finally come.

I hope that the Jeffrey Donaldson revelations will cause us to reflect deeply on the culture that we have allowed to develop, which is insufficiently loving and insufficiently committed to truth.

The widespread use of AI chatbots reinforces the trend. Everything is faster, more effective, more concise. We have more answers to our queries, more information, and more tasks sorted out. But we also have less conversations. 

The fact that liberal-democratic countries such as Switzerland and Germany react so strongly to expressions of faith shows just how far secularisation has progressed. That is why I urge Ruben Vargas, Felix Nmecha and others to continue leavening the dough with a faith lived out genuinely.

The film phenomenon offers an energetic blend of action, music, and humour, wrapped in beautiful, vibrant animation and framed by a mythology with darker undertones.

The current proposals undermine the role of parents and carers while also ignoring freedom of religion and belief, offering no protection for church leaders and others.

Is it possible to attend the same annual conference for over a decade and still feel that it is crucial to your work?

The heroic personal struggles that conflate the political party’s mission with one’s personal project can lead to disaster – both for the individual and for the party. Something similar happens in churches when they become a pastor’s personal project.

Europe would not simply sanction a private individual who supports Putin in the war, but the most important figure of the Russian Orthodox Church itself. Is that what we want?

Perhaps you are not aware of where these barriers might lie. There are different kinds: for example, architectural, communicational, attitudinal, instrumental, methodological, and so on.

From 15 to 18 June, thirty-five participants from nine countries participated in the eight edition of the Rome Scholars and Leaders Network.

Abusers set up new churches, preach again about God’s love, receive official recognition from ‘the good people’, and host lavish meals to celebrate their own success. Victims try to rebuild their own life, in silence.

To identify the entire evangelical community with certain political movements or with media images from the United States is not only unfair, but deeply misguided.

Trump’s ‘Great America’ is that of an immature child who holds gladiator fights in which victory is achieved by beating and humiliating the opponent. Why are evangelicals ceding their influence to this kind of leadership?

A Dutch missionary and theologian, her work steadily expanded from Hungary to Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and in recent years also to Central Asia.

When the Pope spoke about freedom of conscience in Madrid, he forgot to mention that the Roman Catholic Church has been its greatest enemy for centuries.

The facts of what happened this week in Northern Ireland cannot, in themselves, determine our response. They must be interpreted with historical and social awareness, and with Christian conviction and moral clarity.

Both the left and the right applauded Leo XIV's speech, in an unprecedented event in recent Spanish history.

How can we respond with grace and truth to stories of leaders who fall?

When people are discussing a case like this, Christians can testify to a way that takes justice for all seriously but also seeks to be scrupulously fair and hopes for mercy for all involved.

Bishop Andy Lines highlighted the growth of an Anglicanism that is focused on mission and a clear commitment to the “unchanging truth of the Holy Scriptures”. The General Meeting of 2026 marked a milestone in the life of the province-in-formation.

Leading from a Christian perspective does not mean filling the company with spiritual language, but rather exercising authority knowing that every decision affects real lives.

In this complex world, we Christians are building the church of Christ. And if we truly do so, we will quickly realize the enormous potential it holds for combating racism and polarization.

Europe’s true need is not a change of religious label, but the emergence of biblically sound, intellectually serious and spiritually vibrant churches, capable of responding to the moral and existential void of our age.

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.