Tariffs, the dangerous real impact of ‘fakes’, the new Pope, statistics on the growth of evangelicals... And Trump. Here are the most read articles from Evangelical Focus in 2025.

Evangelicals in the media, collaboration in the Balkans, growing church attendance in Western Europe, Christians in Ukraine... Here are ten topics we covered in depth in 2025.

I participated in the major global summit on climate change held in Belém do Pará, Brazil, accompanying young leaders to experience COP from a Christian and missionary perspective.

According to the United Bible Societies annual report, almost 26 million digital Bibles were distributed, compared to 22 million printed Bibles.

What started as a vision to air Christian athlete testimonies quickly grew into a broader strategy spanning radio, video and digital content.

Instead of trying to attract people to a big event and then persuade them to participate in long-term training opportunities, this time YLGen is marketing the long-term relationship.

More than 450 authors and almost 30,000 contents published since the website was launched in January 2015. “The journey we have made reinforces the idea that approaching current affairs from a Christian perspective is not only relevant but necessary”.

“EF promotes constructive conversations that seek to edify, to understand”, writes the president of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance on the 10th anniversary of this journalistic project.

Jesus talked of wheat and tares growing up together. Here is a random sample of both in the last 25 years.

Photos showing important, but not so well known, stories from around the world throughout the year, by World Vision.

The summer of 2024 has been a unique time, and we thank God for all that he did through this period and also for the fruit he will produce.

At the age of 32, Paris will be the sixth edition in which the Christian swimmer participates. In total she has won 29 medals, 16 of them gold.

The joyful and courageous way in which the German Olympic gold medalist in the shot put has publicly expressed her faith is a lesson for all European Christians.

The greatest sporting competition in the world helps us to reflect on success and failure.

The Christian athlete is the first Dominican to win gold at an Olympic Games. “The power of God is great”, she said after the final.

It is the 6th time she broke her own world record of the 400-meter hurdles. “I have a platform and I want to use it to glorify Him”.

The Australian athlete repeats her triumph in Tokyo 2021.  She is very outspoken about her faith:. “My heart for sport is to see revival”.

Trans World Radio features daily one-hour live broadcasts with testimonies of Christian athletes to “convey a message of hope to Arabic-speaking audiences”.

Common decency says we should not liken anything today to 1930’s Germany. In light of what has happened recently and what may lie ahead, maybe it would be wiser if we did.

“Jesus invites all of our contemporaries to his table and offers true reconciliation, identity and belonging”, says Erwan Cloarec, president of the CNEF, while acknowledging the “hurt feelings” of many believers.

Gabriel Medina, with the best Olympic shortboard mark (9.90), described what has become a viral image of Paris 2024 using the words of Philippians 4:13.

The South African swimmer wins the 100m breaststroke gold in Paris and shows gratitude to “God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit”.

The ‘Love France’ initiative provides resources to pray for France; the safety and success of the games; the Church and the different evangelistic events in the Olympics.

In Paris, evangelicals are saddened by a gratuitous derision that does not represent the tolerance and diversity of the Olympic Games. Others in Europe point to the Gospels as a reminder that contempt for Christianity has been going on for 2,000 years.

Throughout the centuries, Christianity and the Olympic Games have had an ambivalent relationship. For good reasons. But today  Christians have come to see major sports gatherings as God-given opportunities for evangelism.