“Pray that what is really in the hearts of the individual candidates is revealed”, says Oliver Stozek, leader of the Austrian Evangelical Alliance.

The Evangelical Alliances in Sweden, Austria, Germany and Spain offer resources to give reasons to vote for the European Parliament, on 6-9 June.

They received the Ukraine's White Cross for evacuating over a thousand people with disabilities since the outbreak of war, and bring them in Germany and Austria.

In the traditionally Catholic central European country, the Evangelical Alliance hopes to connect pastors and parliamentarians.

One of the attackers was shot dead. There have been some arrests in an operation still open. Evangelicals call to “pray for the emergency services, the injured and relatives of the victims”.

How and when churches expect to go back to face-to-face gatherings.

The Synod of the Lutheran Evangelical Church approved that every local church will be able to decide about the blessing of homosexual unions.

Kurz, 31, led the conservative People's Party (ÖVP) to get 31,6% of the vote, and he is expected to form a government with the far-right FPÖ.

The vote will show the real power of pro-European forces and far-right populists. “Pray for our politicians to speak truth, to act honestly”.

The government faces pressure from far-right populists. In a country with 7% of Muslims, evangelical churches differ on what the role of Islam should be.

“Unique” was the theme of this year’s Week of Prayer in Europe. A summary of the highlights in Italy, Austria, Spain, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

“Too often we hide behind our Christian heritage which is somehow only a kind of folk and nominal version of real Christianity”, says Frank Hinkelmann. Evangelicals should not let fear towards foreigners stop their mission.