National “Youth Study” interviews population aged 12 to 25. In contrast with Christians, 75% of young Muslims see their faith in Allah as a priority.

The explosions occurred at two sides of the exit of Ankara’s main train station, in the city centre. More than 180 people were wounded.

The FOCL organised a webinar with Hungarian pastors Ádám Szabados and Dávid Hamar, to discuss about “our responsibilities as followers of Christ in the refugee crisis.”

Representatives meeting in Germany exhorted churches in all European countries to “not confuse our own cultural identity with theological essentials.”

Operation Sophia is a new tool to persecute traffickers in the Mediterranean sea. Dozens of boats are still drowning every week.

After four years of severe cuts, Pedro Passos Coelho’s centre-right coalition receives 38% of votes, but loses majority. Leftists groups grow, but not enough to form a stable alternative.

President Joachim Gauck compares the challenge 25 years ago with the integration of refugees. 80% of population thinks reunification has been helpful.

Spanish evangelical churches and entities ask the national Post Office to create a stamp commemorating the “Bible of the Bear”.

About 10,000 believers seek to serve a society that looks to Europe for answers to the financial crisis. An interview with Samuil Petrovski.

More than 30 evangelical organisations and “countless churches” engaged in welcoming “forced migrants in need of refuge”. European Evangelical Alliance calls believers to “follow in Jesus’ way of sacrificial charity”.

The Spanish Evangelical Alliance “calls the evangelical people in our country to consider, before God, what is their responsibility towards those who arrive to our doors.”

Evangelical groups fear “legitimisation of persecution”. 3,000 Baptist churches write to Putin: “If the country’s laws are in conflict with the Bible… Christians will always take the biblical position”.

Syriza voted back into power with 35% of votes. It has been the fifth national election in only six years.

The proposal is to relocate 120,000 refugees around EU member states. Several eastern European countries oppose the plan.

Two evangelical pastors in Szeged share their views after borders are closed to refugees. The country “will need the church to help integrate and accept the refugees who stay”.

Only one minister in the government supports the European refugee quota. 71% of citizens are reluctant, but evangelicals call to take action following Jesus’ teachings.

Protestant organisations working with refugees urge to “desist from the increasingly xenophobic and inflammatory discourse”.

Pastor Ihsan Özbek: “Fighting against prejudices is a tiring task”. Christians try to be peacemakers and assist refugees near the border with Syria and Irak.

The resolution asks the Commission and the memeber states for gender equality measures to be taken in all levels of education. The text is not legally binding as it is only a recommendation. 

In the first speech given by a president of the Comission elected directly by the EP, Juncker focused his State of the European Union address almost exclusively on the refugee crisis. 

Christian leaders received jihadist messages via email, Facebook and mobile phones. Association of Protestant Christians: “threats are not anything new” but became “systematic” in August.

Some family values organisations alerted about next week’s EU Parliament voting. EEA’s Christel Lamère comments on the background of the text.

The invitation-only congress brings together hundreds of evangelical Christian leaders from across Europe for specialised training, mentoring, resource sharing, and networking. 

European Council President Donald Tusk, has asked EU members to admit 100,000 refugees.

14,000 Icelanders say they are ready to offer shelter and aid to Syrian refugees. A Christian MP in Germany hosts two Eritrean refugees at home. “Net of shelter cities” emerges in Spain.