The youth of Ukraine are exhausted and impacted daily by a war that they did not choose. This reality impacts the mission along Ukraine’s land border, as well as Ukrainian youth in the diaspora.
Uncertainty is no excuse for paralysis. The biblical alternative to complacency is watchfulness; the alternative to fear is faithfulness.
“God is at work and churches continue to work. More than 40,000 have been baptised”, says pastor Igor Bandura as a delegation from Ukraine attends ‘Hope for Europe’ in Albania.
What Ukraine is teaching the Global Church about migration.
The danger comes when Christianity becomes identified with a political project whose primary purpose is to preserve a particular cultural order.
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.
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.
My trip to Kyiv last week has sharpened my understanding of how increasingly central Ukraine is to Europe’s future.
“Everything has been destroyed”, said the Ukraine for Christ ministy. A nearby elderly care home was also struck, leaving 29 residents dead.
The Ukrainian Prayer Breakfast was a reminder that spiritual leadership remains essential in times of crisis.
Botrus Mansour of the WEA and Jan Wessels of the EEA met with Christian leaders. They joined the National Prayer Breakfast and the celebrations of the 35th anniversary of Ukraine's independence.
How the Bible anniversary in Ukraine is helping rediscover spiritual inspiration for renewal.
Ukraine is not simply fighting for survival; it is also preserving the civic habits that make survival meaningful.
The Evangelical Alliance sends a letter to Andy Burnham. The new prime minister recently said he does not regularly attend mass, but still professes the Catholic faith.
“As Christians, we are called to work towards cultures where abuse is never ignored or concealed”, says the Evangelical Alliance Northern Ireland, following the court conviction of former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson.
The current proposals undermine the role of parents and carers while also ignoring freedom of religion and belief, offering no protection for church leaders and others.
The joint initiative of southern English evangelical churches goes on, with more than 130 people being baptised during two consecutive Sunday services.
The Labour government’s proposals include up to five years of prison. The Evangelical Alliance UK denounces that the definition of abusive practices is “entirely subjective”. Christian Concern speaks of “a ban on conversations”.
Europe would not simply sanction a private individual who supports Putin in the war, but the most important figure of the Russian Orthodox Church itself. Is that what we want?
The European Union is proposing sanctions against the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church for inciting the war against Ukraine. Tatiana Kopaleishvili of the European Evangelical Alliance sees sufficient grounds to respond to the theological justification of an unjust war.
Starmer is the sixth outgoing prime minister in only ten years. "We ask for your wisdom at this time and for godly guidance for our nation”, prays the Evangelical Alliance.
The Prime Minister’s announcement has drawn criticism from teenagers who conduct most of their social lives via social media. We asked the policy adviser at the Evangelical Alliance UK about the role churches should play in offering places of community and friendship.
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