Beatrice Stöckli was reported dead by Swiss authorities after four years hold hostage. The Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Zurich confirms the DNA tests.

Some US evangelicals “hope Virginia will have a domino effect on their neighbors”. They see “a growing number of Christian leaders and denominations speaking out against the death penalty”.

The death of the 25-year old Michèle Käch and her recently married husband Christoph causes shock among churches in the city of Thun.

With no visitors allowed, we found ourselves ‘being church’, filling the gap where other clergy from the community were unable to visit their church members. By Katie McClure.

There have been over 700,000 deaths in Europe since the beginning of the pandemic. Strong measures against coronavirus remain in most of the countries.

Let us not forget the future hope and comfort that enabling people to die well will bring.

Whether Covid-19 will lead to a resurgence of faith in Europe will be seen in years to come but, for now, it has forced churches to innovate in their responses to grief and death and share the hope in Christ beyond the walls of the church.

Death for Ernest Hemingway was a release from the role that life seemed to have assigned to him.

“They are not as well known as Maradona, but represent hundreds of men and women of faith who died during this pandemic”,  said Christian Member of Parliament Dina Rezinovsky.

Maradona is repeatedly compared to a god, but was a man with feet of clay. Dieguito has died - Jesus, the true God, lives forever.

Brazil and Mexico are the second and fourth countries with more deaths worldwide. Latin American evangelicals have been helping those affected by Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The amendments of the opposition parties have been rejected. “Such a sensitive issue needs a broad social and political consensus”, the Spanish Evangelical Alliance says.

“The state shall not establish an official religion. No citizen shall be discriminated based on their religion”, the new agreement between the government and the rebels says.

“All the community members, mainly Christians, have all fled. Please pray for God’s intervention”, All Africa Baptist Fellowship said.

He died after more than 40 days on a hunger strike. “State Security does not allow some opponents to attend the funeral”, a friend says.

Spain, the UK, Italy, Turkey, France and Germany are the European countries with more cases, which are spreading among younger people.

Lebanese president says explosion was caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate unsafely stored in a port warehouse. Christians in Beirut call on to “pray for Lebanon”.

The government of the Central American country has not imposed restrictions and evangelical churches are split between those who closed their worship places and those who keep celebrating services.

The president of the French Evangelical Alliance, Christian Blanc, spent one month in the hospital infected with the coronavirus. “We must incarnate the gospel by being closer to the poor and the sick”.

Scientists from Imperial College London and Berkeley University warn that “the risk of a second wave happening if all precautions are abandoned is very real”.

Churches across the country remember those who died in special worship services with a “message of hope in resurrection and eternal life”.

Because Jesus rose from the dead, He made a way for humans to come to God and defeated the enemy of our souls and death itself.

The National Council of Evangelicals of France collected the data of 580 churches. 8 in 10 congregations have used video conferences and other online tools during the Covid-19 lockdown.

An interview with psychiatrist Pablo Martinez. “Farewell is the natural gateway to mourning”, he says. “Being deprived of this option is an obstacle that complicates the subsequent process”.

The document by Spanish Christian psychologists was first translated into English, and now into Russian, Slovak, and other languages. “We want it to continue spreading for good, either for this crisis or for any future crisis”.