No one was killed, and on Sunday, members of the church began clearing the rubble from the building. “Even a large fire cannot burn down what is built on the solid rock of faith,” say the church leaders in the town near Kharkiv, east of Ukraine.

Christian faith isn’t grounded in a sanitised, sentimental version of events; but in the stark reality that God became flesh and bore the full weight of human brokenness to bring us life.

The sense that Christianity is losing influence and moral values are eroding creates a fear that can lead to support for strong leaders, aggressive rhetoric and simplistic solutions.

As we remember at Easter, the cross of Christ isn’t the end of the story. After tragedy comes redemption, and after the apparent end comes a new beginning.

Jesus' entry on a donkey raises an uncomfortable yet necessary idea: perhaps true credibility does not lie in the spectacular, but in being faithful to oneself.

According to a survey, 28% say they believe in the resurrection, 9% up compared to 2022. Younger adults are the most likely to hold this view.

Entitled ‘Os elixidos’, the series will be broadcast in the language spoken by 2.4 million people in north-western Spain.

The satisfaction that Jesus rendered to divine justice through His work on the cross is perfect, so all that remains for us is to sing.

Never has anyone shown such great love at the hour of their death, never has anyone spoken with such a pastoral heart. The Good Shepherd, the Prince of Shepherds died pastoring his sheep.

The Faithful: Women of the Bible “is about discovering and losing love, the challenges of marriage, the joys and heartbreak of children, confronting temptation, and finding faith”.

The United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands also feature in the world’s Top 15 for religious diversity. The main competitor is not Islam, but religious non-affiliation, a study confirms.

“If we don’t register, they’ll come to every service and stop it”, says the pastor of one of the churches after being interrogated by Russian police in the occupied Luhansk region.

Ukraine is the moral test of our time: What are we willing to defend? Are Europe’s values merely rhetorical or genuinely moral? The rule of law over brute force, truth over disinformation, justice over impunity. Rebuilding Ukraine is not charity; it is Europe rediscovering its own identity.

The Evangelical Alliance in the Caucasian country was formed in 2019 after conversations around unity, collaboration and advocacy. 

The gathering brought together 76 participants from 40 theological institutions across nine countries to advance regional theological cooperation in Eastern Europe and beyond.

In Sarajevo, 150 participants reflected a shared hunger for gospel-centered encouragement and practical equipping for evangelism.

We Christians should stand up for truth, compassion, righteousness and justice for all. We must persist in prayer for a just peace, for Ukrainians and for Russians.

The Christian Open Academy has trained hundreds of leaders in Ukraine since 2020, and uses its connections with Christians in other countries to strengthen society with solid gospel perspectives. An interview with director Jaroslaw Lukasik.

If injustices are not addressed, the conflict not only simmers, but will threaten to boil over again, maybe in years or in a generation, but with greater force and consequences.

The small country of 2.6 million between Ukraine and Romania has been under heavy pressure from Russia. More than half voted for the party that is committed to closer ties with Western Europe.

According to the North Caucasian Evangelical Alliance, at the beginning of 2024, substantial groups of locals in almost every ethnic group in the Russian part of the Caucasus professed faith in Jesus.

If the Christian Church understands how to welcome the stranger and contextualise the message to the newcomer, it will bear the message of hope and salvation through Jesus Christ.

 Bold theology acknowledges its own limitations and welcomes the sanctifying work of the Spirit.

‘No God But Theirs’ (a one-hour documentary in English) tells the case of Melitopol, a Russian-occupied city in southeastern Ukraine where Christians responded to the invasion with public prayer and mutual support.

The second day of the European Congress on Evangelism focused on the importance of trusting the Bible. Persecuted Christians from Africa and Middle East shared their testimonies, as participants prayed for the Ukraine war after Franklin Graham met Zelenskyy.