More than 16,000 people have arrived to Italy through the Mediterranean so far in 2016. Experts fear better weather conditions will encourage thousands to take this route. Evangelicals in Sicily serve asylum seekers.

“The question of our reading of the Scriptures and the authority that we grant them is at stake”, says Pastor Caroline Bretones, one of the 250 members of the new movement. In May, the historic Protestant Church EPUdF voted to bless same-sex marriages.

In the world basketball championships in Spain in 1996, one man stood out above all the others, Tyrone Bogues. 

Protestant organisations working with refugees urge to “desist from the increasingly xenophobic and inflammatory discourse”.