Comparison is rarely helpful and on our 1-star days we can all do with a little compassion.

Problems in our politics are not resolved by us stepping away from the fray. You don’t fix a problem by being a spectator.

Christian leaders lament “the degradation of truth in our public discourse” and the “arrogance” seen in the last weeks. They pray for a new leader with “integrity, wisdom, honesty and competence”.

A Christian broadcaster in the Middle East is giving embattled Iranian women a voice after government officials shut down the nation’s internet amid mass protests that have turned deadly.

The death of Mahsa Amini sparked protests across Iran. Christians inside and outside the country demand “an end to imposition and discriminatory laws”.

Christian parliamentarians say existing laws already protect citizens from harassment. “It would be a threat to freedom of speech, assembly and religion”.

The unholy alliance of the Russian church and state is a lesson for Christian nationalists everywhere.

Many Christians arrested and charged for belonging to “illegal” groups.

For evangelicals in Western Europe, the most tangible problem is not one of freedom, but rather of public participation.

Around 100 representatives from churches across the evangelical spectrum met for a weekend to listen to each other and pray for their cities.

Carlos Martínez celebrates 40 years on stage and analyses his career. ‘Silence must be part of our communication inside and outside the church’.

A survey among pastors also finds that Christian communities had more chances to connect with new people. Church leaders are still feeling exhausted.

A Franciscan prior a Bosnian Muslim and an Orthodox Serb have become mutual friends in the ongoing challenge of shifting the hearts, minds and stubborn ethnic, political and religious pride of their homeland.

The first surviving Christian writing outside the New Testament, Didache, already makes a statement against abortion, infanticide and paedophilia.

The problem of modern slavery was made visible in Bournemouth, Stuttgart, Valencia, Bern, Innsbruck, Sofia, Copenhagen, and dozens of other cities.

Evangelism is a process of building plausible structures to help people take steps of faith towards Jesus. An article by Michael Hart.

Art can help us unwrap the riches of Scripture. Our world was created by the greatest of Artists, after all.

A survey interviewed 25,000 teenagers in 26 countries. “It’s rare that teens think poorly of Jesus. The global impression of Jesus is that he is trustworthy, generous, wise, peaceful”, the authors say.

The church had been searched by military personnel of the Russian-backed authorities. Relatives and church members have not received answers.

The Spanish band Papel Maché releases a new album. “Through creation we can be amazed and get to know God more”, says Keila Elm.

Christian parents ask the Archbishop of Canterbury the withdrawal of a guide that allows students from the age of 5 to self-identify as the opposite sex.

At the triennial conference held in Sarajevo, the annual Hope Award was presented to Jeff Fountain.

Many of us still live under the spell that says we get saved by faith, but then will grow by self-stirred effort. 

There are 12,500 care homes in the UK and 50,000 churches who can make a difference for elderly residents.

In the midst of a Europe dying of scepticism and shrinking back in fear and pain, there is still room for hope, and that hope is brought by the children of God.