Matthieu Sanders, a pastor in Paris, analyses the background of the riots in France. “Pray that the French church would be equipped for effective witness and peacemaking in an often tense national climate”.

The free and anonymous telephone number offers 24/7 help to victims. The agreement with the National Police follows a  model working well in Greece.

Let us be committed to the urgent and unfinished task of making disciples of Jesus Christ in the whole world. An article by Joshua Bogunjoko.

All of us are being moulded into the likeness of the character of Jesus, and the world will see in us that character if we work together.

It is believed to be around 18,000 different species of birds. By contrast, only 110 different species of lily have been identified.

The UN warned that children are “discouraged from expressing their opinions” and threatened with “consequences” for holding dissenting views.

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Pray that God will give you the faith, persistence and determination to keep on praying, even when we seem to be getting no response.

Only two weeks before the general elections, the Spanish government uses the European Union Presidency to promote gender self-identification across the continent.

In neither country is surrogacy regulated by law, but the Dutch and Swedish governments support “altruistic surrogacy”.

The government also agreed to establish a “Counter Blasphemy Wing”  to take action against dissemination of “blasphemous content” on the internet.

Meanwhile, the parliament opts to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. A journalist in Prague analyses the positions of evangelical Christians.

The Supreme Court rejected a request to change the name and remove the gender from birth records and the civil status.

The shameful heritage of slavery is shared by both Protestant and Catholic countries in Europe. The Netherlands was one of the last nations to abolish it.

“We contributed to the perpetuation of slavery, through our theology we justified the abuse”, said a Protestant leader. The Dutch king also apologised.

In Germany, only 1.6% read the Bible every day, although half of the population is a member of one of the historic churches.

Bookclubs are brilliant places where we can be persuaded to pick up a book by an author we have never heard of, or a topic that we have not explored.

The regional parliament tries to solve the problem of worship places and creates an Interreligious Council for faith minorities.

“Rapito” was presented at the 2023 Cannes Festival. It tells the true story of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy from Bologna, who was kidnapped from his family in 1858 and taken to a Catholic boarding school by order of the Inquisition court.

Attackers entered the worship place, smashed windows, destroyed the prayer room, and wrote the message: “The last prophet was Mohamed”.

When we look towards God, all other things lose their importance.

The Committee for Women’s Rights & Gender Equality of the European Parliament has passed a report on prostitution that could shape the future policies all across Europe.

A medical team of 3 must agree upon the procedure, which may only occur in a licensed clinic.

“Our goal with technology should be to have more healthy humans, not to create some kind of super humans”, says the bioethics expert in an interview with Evangelical Focus.

‘His Only Son’, now screening in Europe after winning over audiences in the US, depicts one of the iconic scenes of the Old Testament. We spoke to the director, David Helling.