Jan Wessels, co-general secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance, speaks to Evangelical Focus. Amid tensions, “our role is to keep the evangelical family together, keep people talking to each other and praying together”, he says.

Do migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees feel they can honestly share some of their struggles in our churches or do they feel they will be stereotyped, judged, or misunderstood?

In Spain, abolitionist NGO Amar Dragoste has studied the drastic increase of young women trafficked from Colombia and points to the rise of recruitment on platforms such as OnlyFans.

The Bible takes history very seriously. In fact, the Bible is the source of our western understanding of linear time. The dimensions of past, present and future are not as self-evident as we may think. 

Europe has an enormous bureaucracy (parliament, commission, council, courts, etc.), many skills and excellences in various sectors, but it does not have an adequate leadership.

We are used to talking too much and doing too little. We are specialists in words and illiterate in power.

Because we have been made in the image of a relational God, connection with each other is woven into the fabric of our being, making tears in that fabric so painful.

How should political and Christian leaders respond as a US president unhinges the world order?

The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was a milestone, enabling the mass production of books and the spread of knowledge to a much wider audience.

After contacting some 50 people active in all kinds of scientific fields, the aim is to “learn together to have a perspective of the profession from a Christian worldview”, says convener Maricruz Lacalle.

Work is not simply an economic “prosthesis”; nor a “necessary evil” that goes from Monday to Friday waiting for the weekend.

“Despite the pain of that death, it was not a senseless death. We were able to bear witness of the faith that Alfonso had in Jesus”, recalls the pastor of the church he attended in the Basque Country.

Why might we struggle with preaching at Easter?

Tearfund, Evangelical Alliance and other organisations reject what they describe as a “cruel” and “unwise” decision.

It is estimated that 100 children and young people suffered  ‘physical, sexual, psychological and spiritual trauma’ over a period of 40 years, according to the Makin review.

The L4 demonstrates that Christianity does not belong to North Americans or Europeans, but to everyone who is made in God’s image, humbly learning God’s Words and following God’s way.

On the weekend of the elections, two prayer meetings led by young people distanced themselves from any political option: ‘We dream of a prayer movement that will transform the country’.

Five months after the election, the Austrian Evangelical Alliance says citizens “have the feeling that they are becoming increasingly voiceless”.

Two senators, a law professor, education experts and many representatives of religious minorities addressed issues and opportunities in Italy at a journey organised by the Italian Evangelical Alliance.

New Testament writers desired believers like us to be at home with eschatology, owning it for our lives, so that it doesn’t feel strange or scary.

Snippets of ‘a better story’ could be heard last week at the ARC conference. But what we need is not a white, Anglo-American, conservative, capitalist, Christian nationalist story attempting to turn the clock back to ‘Christendom’.

An 83% turnout demonstrates the strength of a democracy that will have to get used to having the far right as a protagonist in parliament.

What God gives us is always the best, even though we may find that hard to understand.

We have at least three ‘mystery’ senses that we might not know so much about, including vestibular proprioception, and interoception.

Two victims denounced a leader of the church Comunidad Samaria and a member who was a minor at the time of the incidents. The regional evangelical council has joined the trial as a private prosecution.