The country held parliamentary elections in September. The Islamic Action Front party won 31 seats, the largest number of seats for a party in parliament.

Martin Accad, president of a theological seminary in Beirut, analyses the critical situation on the ground. “Though we often feel helpless, we never feel hopeless”.

A Baptist church in Zahlé hosts 150 people who fled the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in the south. They were already working with Syrian refugees.

The exclusion of God from our lives inevitably leads to an escalation of violence, as James writes in his New Testament letter.

Christians discuss the recent unrest on an online roundtable. Over 400 people were arrested across the UK due to the disorders.

What is the gospel? And, is there a contextual reading of the gospel that can help us to decolonise mission?

A Christian perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Supreme Court unanimously rules to end the exemption that allowed Haredi youths to be exempted from military. A “symbolic and important” decision.

From 14 to 21 January, Europeans are invited to reflect and pray for the mission through the articles of the Lausanne Covenant in its 50th anniversary.

The whole cosmos scrolls searching for good news. If this is not our good news moment then, pray tell, what do we think that moment will ever look like?

From the UN's views on LGBT issues and religious freedom to evangelical movements in Europe tackling issues of the day. These are the ten stories you've read and shared the most this year.

Whenever we see a Christmas star these dark days, we can be encouraged that the Light of the Gentiles has indeed come.

Five hundred participants at the European Parliament Prayer Breakfast in Brussels last Wednesday listened intently to a Palestinian Christian leader and others who are suffering under the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Almost all political parties were represented in the peaceful march. The French National Council of Evangelical Christians condemns the one thousand antisemitic acts recorded in recent weeks.

The European Evangelical Alliance publishes two calls to action amidst the rising tensions in the context of the Israel-Gaza war.

Vengeance begets vengeance, but Christians should be able to show that another way is possible, writes a Palestinian Christian journalist in Jordan.

As the situation in the Holy Land intensifies, the European Evangelical Alliance invites the Church to pray together.

After a pro-Palestinian demonstration, radicals intimidated Jewish shopkeepers and police officers had to be deployed.

Al-Ahli is the only Christian hospital in Gaza city. Media and governments blamed Israel for the attack but images and intelligence by the IDF points to a failed rocket fired from Gaza.

In the days of the Assemblies of God World Congress, all kinds of conversations took place on the fringes of the programme. Like the stories of Oleksandr from Israel and Emmanuel from Nigeria.

Many European Christians are susceptible to becoming more Islamophobic after Islamic terrorist attacks. They have voted for extreme right-wing populist parties focusing on the perceived threat of the Islamisation of Europe.

It is not a question of a siege of Gaza, nor of the collapse of the two-state solution. It is about the existence of Israel in a territory which Hamas claims belongs entirely to Islam

Steven, a tourist guide in Israel says the Hamas terrorist attacks have paralised the country. “Tourism is my only source of income. We don’t know what is going to happen”.

Reactions from evangelical Christians in France, UK, Spain, Germany, and the European Evangelical Alliance.

Two Christians explain how they are experiencing the outbreak of war. “It is impossible not to think about God and how He may be guiding these events”, says Andrés from Tel Aviv.