The thirteen original American colonies had to find a way to live together without becoming either thirteen separate nations or a new centralised empire. They found a framework for healthy interdependence among themselves, despite their religious diversity.
We need to get back to worshipping our God.
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.
World Vision, REMAR, Alianza Solidaria, Diaconía and several denominations have launched coordinated responses following the earthquakes on 24 June.
Sixteen people, aged between 14 and 80, were baptised in June by the ‘La Trinidad’ evangelical church in the coastal town near Alicante. They have been bearing witness to their faith for over a century.
We can see the need for rest in those around us as their attitudes reflect Martha’s bad day. But all too often, we cannot see the issue in ourselves.
Governments around the world need to ask themselves if “human beings can become a means to satisfy the interests and desires of others”, says Italy's Minister for Family and Natality.
Is it possible to attend the same annual conference for over a decade and still feel that it is crucial to your work?
The World Evangelical Alliance addressed the Austrian government at the Human Rights Council, requesting that no obstacles prevent the registration of faith minorities.
For the Gospel, the threshold is a place of transition, not of lingering. It is a one-way passage, not a platform where one is supposed to remain.
The reform of the Criminal Code, spearheaded by the government, is now going to the Senate. The Spanish Evangelical Alliance rejects the Bill because it criminalises voluntary pastoral care, and FEREDE says the government is using ambiguous wording.
The joint initiative of southern English evangelical churches goes on, with more than 130 people being baptised during two consecutive Sunday services.
Cuba's energy crisis has plunged entire communities into isolation, but TWR has found a way to break through and support the Cuban people in their time of need.
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.
The Labour government’s proposals include up to five years of prison. The Evangelical Alliance UK denounces that the definition of abusive practices is “entirely subjective”. Christian Concern speaks of “a ban on conversations”.
Football became so deeply rooted in British working-class communities because there were chapels, Sunday schools, parish rooms and young men looking for somewhere to belong, long before there were professional clubs, stadiums and television contracts.
If you are a grandparent of a child with additional needs, you can be the difference for your family between coping and crashing.
The Bible message to us is that we live in a story with a “dragon” (the snake that rules over our hearts) but there is also a “dragonslayer”: the offspring of the woman.
To be blessed by people we had led to faith and who had joined our church conveyed the life-giving power of this act with astonishing clarity.
“Welcoming my son into the world is one of the greatest blessings God has ever given me”, underlined the football star playing for Belgium, quoting James 1:17 on social media: "Every good and perfect gift is from above”.
World Vision deploys teams on the ground as the deaths of nearly 600 people are reported. “Everything went dark and everything started shaking. Children were screaming in fear”, says one eyewitness. Alianza Solidaria and GAiN are also launching emergency campaigns.
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?
The European Union is proposing sanctions against the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church for inciting the war against Ukraine. Tatiana Kopaleishvili of the European Evangelical Alliance sees sufficient grounds to respond to the theological justification of an unjust war.
At least 589 people have died and around have been 3,000 injured, say official reports on Friday. Affected areas include La Guaira, where a church collapsed. Thousands are trying to find relatives, pastors call to pray as Christian organisations start sending aid.
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