The 2021 European Evangelical Alliance annual event will be held online (7-10 June). “Our mission requires perspectives and contributions from all spheres of society”.

Participants from all over the world “received encouragement and inspiration through specialized training, mentoring and networking”, say the organisers of the European Leadership Forum.

The university offers its facilities, staff and equipment to the Ministry of Health. Meanwhile, Costa Rican evangelical MPs call on the nation to pray  for those suffering from coronavirus.

With around 420,000 deaths and rocketing unemployment, pastors hope churches can be “a refuge” in the midst of a severe crisis. “It is the biggest challenge of my professional life”, says an evangelical doctor.

We recently ran our annual mentoring and training conference. 80 women from across Europe gathered together.

The General Secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) analyses the tragic situation caused by the new Covid-19 wave. He calls on believers worldwide to pray for India and its churches.

A new whole-life worship song to the tune of the hymn ‘Abide With Me’ “inspires to see our daily tasks through God’s eyes”, says the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity.

“Church leaders, pastors and congregation members are taken away forever from the midst of us. Our hearts are totally broken”, writes an evagelical leader. Thousands die without access to hospitals.

The Russian Evangelical Alliance calls to “restore the peaceful relations between the peoples of both countries”. Churches in Ukraine encouraged to “pray and fast for the peace in our land”.

The Council of Evangelical Churches denounces the use of “biblical end-time themes” to “incite fear and panic”, and asks its members to “consult only reliable sources”.

The Italian city, epicentre of the Covid-19 one year ago, thanks the evangelical NGO for building a field hospital which cared about patients in the worst wave of the virus.

A palliative care doctor analyses the recently approved Spanish euthanasia law and its consequences in the final stages of life. “Closing our life properly is the way to die well”, she says.

A biblical case for employing those with disabilities.

After the blast that killed over 100 people, the residents of the biggest Equatorial Guinean city are “starting to recover”, says an evangelical aid worker on the ground.

Pandemic partnership for health professionals and the church. An article by Ted Lankester.

As Christians, how can we respond to this generational conflict over the state of our planet? By David Snoswell.

“No one should wish to die due to lack of palliative care”, Spanish health workers say, while they denounce their “defencelessness”.

‘Roma Networks’ helps build healthy regional partnerships to respond to challenges such as children education, East-West migrations, and the holistic training of young Christian leaders.

Mainline Protestant and Catholic churches in Pakistan have decided to petition courts against forcible conversion of underage girls.

His greatest desire is to see us all qualified for the greatest Olympics in history, where the prize is life itself.

The manual emphasizes the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and encourages Christians to trust God and “be witnesses of Jesus in these times”.

A Christian who has worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with an international organisation says these kind of abuses are “a common practice in countries where there is impunity, and a rape and sexual exploitation culture”.

They are accused of forcing 52 immigrants to work for endless days without food or water at high temperatures.

We are not free to maximise our own pleasure and happiness at the expense of others; such thinking comes not from Genesis 1 but Genesis 3 – it arose from the Fall. Much of the resistance to the reform of capitalism comes from a faulty anthropology.

Imagining a post-virus landscape and its effects on missions. By R. McLeod and D. Taylor.