Voices have identified the Russian House in Germany as a hub for Putin’s propaganda. But is that really so surprising? Are the Goethe Institutes, which represent German culture and language in Russia absolutely neutral?

My trip to Kyiv last week has sharpened my understanding of how increasingly central Ukraine is to Europe’s future.

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.

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.

Sergiy Melyanets and Natallia Vasilevich, who live outside the country, have been added to Russia's Federal Wanted List at the request of Belarus.

Ukraine is not simply fighting for survival; it is also preserving the civic habits that make survival meaningful.

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.

Pastor Anatoly Kaluzhny recounts the destruction he found when he arrived at his church after receiving an early morning warning of a Russian attack. “I also saw God’s mercy: our worship centre and sanctuary, though significantly damaged, remained standing”.

New Life Church's Sunday School classrooms wrecked, mobile dental clinic for refugees hit, humanitarian aid vehicles affected. After the attack on 2 June, pastor Anatoly Kalushny is appealing for support to rebuild the site.

States do face real threats and evil can sometimes only be checked by force. But the lesson is clear: war is a profoundly blunt instrument for creating justice, reconciliation or lasting order.

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.

Evangelicals do not seem to be on Pope Leo’s radar, aside from a few indirect critical remarks between the lines of his speeches in Cameroon and Angola.

Last Saturday was ‘Europe’s’ 76th birthday. You hadn’t noticed? Few European nations make much fuss about “Europe Day”, May 9. But it is great to remember the integration that has helped avoided war among EU's nations. 

Christian just war reasoning has long treated humanitarian limits as essential criteria for the moral use of force.

“The Middle East is often characterized as full of explosive religious tension, and I don’t want my spiritual community in the West to misunderstand this region”. An interview with Christian journalist Jayson Casper, in Lebanon.

The evangelical identity must be lived out in a responsible and credible manner, starting with local churches and being part of evangelical networks that deserve the name. A perspective from Rome, Italy.

“This is a deliberate attack on people of faith, those who gathered peacefully to pray”, the embassy of Ukraine in the U.S. said in a public statement.

María José García-Pelayo received the ‘Unamuno, Friend of Protestants Award’ in recognition of her work to promote coexistence and institutional openness towards the Evangelical community in the Spanish city.

Suspended in the vast blackness, our planet appeared not as a battleground of competing powers, but as a delicate, radiant sphere—fragile yet hospitable and astonishingly alive. 

An internationally awarded evangelistic short film from Switzerland, “delivers the central message of the gospel in a gripping way that transcends language and culture”.

Ukraine is becoming a laboratory of ethics for the global church. Historian Yaroslav Hrytsak says absolute pacifism can become morally irresponsible in the face of violent tyranny.

The Arab Baptist Theological Seminary seeks to provide emotional and spiritual support to people displaced by war in Lebanon. “Even as the sound of drones grows louder in our skies, we continue to witness glimpses of Christ’s love in action”, says Loulwa El Maalouf.

To receive the displaced is to echo the heart of Jesus who “did not come to be served but to serve”. Still, we feel the tension: the urgent needs of today and the long work of tomorrow. By Wissam Nasrallah, president of the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Beirut.