Evangelical preacher and musician Fabricio Alvarado leads the polls. His defence of traditional marriage clashes with a recent resolution of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews attacked a meeting centre in Dimona.

Myth 2: If it bears good fruit then it is a good sermon.

Eighty-seven new places of worship have been opened in the last six months of 2017. There are now 4,045 evangelical premises throughout the country.

“They threatened the pastor, ‘How dare you set up a church in our locality? This area is of upper castes. Stop running church here’”, a church leader in the region explains.

We do not want our churches to merely  include people with disabilities, we want them to be places where people with disabilities feel they belong.

A survey conducted by the Czech Evangelical Alliance also asked evangelical church members about sexuality, refugees and divorce.

The rate is similar among Roman Catholics and Protestants. The 2017 Reformation commemorations have not had a deep impact, experts say.

Myth 1: Since the preacher was led by God in the preparation, it would be wrong to evaluate the sermon.

The cryptocurrency, created in 2009, is used by hundreds of thousands. “It will be part of our daily lives”, the church in Zurich says.

A second round will decide the Presidential election later this month. “Until now, it was fashionable to oppose churches and Christianity but this is slowly changing”, says pastor Dan Drápal.

How will we react if God calls us to take a step of faith which could have drastic consequences?

Military Police used excavators and dynamite to destroy the Golden Lampstand Church. “This might be a new pattern against any independent churches”, Christian advocacy groups warn.

A letter to the embassador in Rome was delivered.

Intolerance against Christians is highest in Central and Southeast Asia, after North Korea. The situation worsens dramatically in Africa. In Europe, two people were murdered bacause of their faith last year.

A study shows that over 50% of mega-church-goers in Southeast Asia, have a university degree, are Chinese, and come from families which were not previously Christian.

Although a postmodern stance toward faith relegates theological issues to the background, they are indispensable for understanding the missionary reality.

In their own quiet way, Russia’s Protestant denominations are continuing to evangelise.

About 180 churches leave the denomination in the midst of theological and pastoral debates about same-sex unions.

It will be through spending time looking at Jesus that we will lose our appetite for self-promotion.

A gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire outside Marmina church and nearby shop. More than 100 Christians have been killed in Egypt in the past year.

Fulani militants gunmen attacked Christian carollers while they were singing in a church of Southern Kaduna, Nigeria. Ten are still injured.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa participated in a Christmas service in the Evangelical Church of Sintra. “I left spiritually fuller”, he said after the ceremony.

The Netherlands is known throughout Europe as the leading exponent of radically liberal social, medical and ethical policies.

Evangelical Christians will pray together in hundreds of cities across Europe. A prayer guide and a Bible reading plan for mobile devices is now available for everyone to download.