Reflections on the evangelical engagement with Roman Catholicism.

We ask theologian David Brown in France about today's influence of Catholicism, ‘laicité’ in politics, and the new efforts to promote ecumenism with evangelicals.

Keri Ladner is a compulsive researcher, thanks in part to her autism. More importantly, she’s an inspiring person.

If Jesus was not a conservative, as we argued last week, was he maybe a nationalist? or a liberal? or a socialist? or a capitalist?

Jesus didn’t treat women as second class citizens, but as supporters, fellow travellers, and disciples. A lesson to many today.

In Switzerland, 6 per cent of the population are Muslim. Parliamentarians who fear the Islamisation want more control by local councils over mosques and their funding. But such laws would affect evangelical free churches as well. 

On 25 September, numerous schools will hold compulsory lessons in which the usual curriculum will be replaced by content about the Pope. The Minister for Education has authorised the move, on condition that no spiritual practices are imposed.

Participants of the Global Forum for Life, Family and Freedoms agreed to set up a convening committee to create the ProLife Core Group, started with the Geneva Consensus Declaration.

The law approved by the Spanish Government seeks to redress the injustice suffered by pastors and their families who were prevented from making social security contributions during the Franco regime and the early years of democracy.

Governments may employ a “divide-and-rule” strategy to weaken civil and religious groups. Wounds from violent conflict can fester, keeping Christian communities divided even after the war has ended.

The case of a father who was barred by the Spanish courts from taking his young son to church or teaching him about the faith, due to the mother’s opposition, has been referred to the European Court of Human Rights.

A low fertility rate and the secularisation of the island are the causes. Six out of ten children are registered as Catholic at birth, in a context where ‘cultural Catholicism’ persists.

Religious and cultural pluralism is a fact, but theological pluralism and moral subjectivism are dangerous, contradictory ideologies.

The reference international report reached a record low in science, reading and math. France, Germany and Spain saw their worst results ever. Analyst Jaume Llenas gives a Christian perspective. 

What explains the fact that two out of every three practising Christians in the UK now identify as evangelical? Danny Webster, one of the authors of the report ‘Understanding UK Evangelicals’, answers our questions.

David Smith, the government’s Special Envoy for Religious Freedom, visited Ukraine in July. In the country's occupied territories, people only can worship freely in Russian Orthodox Churches, he says.

Evangelicalism cannot be ignored. If you meet three people who practice their Christian faith, go to church, read the Bible and pray, then two of them are likely to be evangelicals. 

A major survey shows that there are 5.5 million committed evangelicals, 8 per cent of the population. Around 40 per cent of them are under the age 35, the Evangelical Alliance United Kingdom reports.

Asturias, in the north of Spain, celebrates 45 years of being an Autonomous Community. Among the prominent names in the celebrations features evangelical pastor Rubén Fernández Valle.

Members of the European Parliament and expert organisations such as the European Evangelical Alliance call on Mairead McGuiness in Brussels to contact governments that fail to protect this human right: both within and outside Europe.

The Protestant and Catholic Churches have acknowledged in a joint statement that the elections in Saxony-Anhalt “have made our worst fears a reality”. Jews lament a rise in antisemitism.

For 56 million evangelicals—the majority of whom are Pentecostals—their central role in the country's public life is being reinforced.

The Evangelical Alliance UK has published a 36-page guide containing definitions of popular New Age concepts, testimonies of conversions to Christianity and ideas for engaging with spiritual seekers.

If we have learnt anything in these twenty centuries, it is that the Lord’s work has never advanced through the power of our tools, but through the faithfulness of those who wield them.

The journalist Paco Niebla tells the life and murder of his grandmother Ángela in the Spanish city of Vigo. “People who lose their memory lose their identity”, he said.