Afrim Karoshi, an Albanian evangelical, analyses the demand for a ‘new Albania’ that thousands of people are voicing on the streets, in a conflict that goes beyond discontent with a major foreign investment in the Zvërnec region.

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.

Christian faith isn’t grounded in a sanitised, sentimental version of events; but in the stark reality that God became flesh and bore the full weight of human brokenness to bring us life.

“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.

TWR’s mission in the Middle East and the faith of its leaders remind us that hope is not only alive but also returning to the place where it all began. 

The sense that Christianity is losing influence and moral values are eroding creates a fear that can lead to support for strong leaders, aggressive rhetoric and simplistic solutions.

As we remember at Easter, the cross of Christ isn’t the end of the story. After tragedy comes redemption, and after the apparent end comes a new beginning.

Jesus' entry on a donkey raises an uncomfortable yet necessary idea: perhaps true credibility does not lie in the spectacular, but in being faithful to oneself.

According to a survey, 28% say they believe in the resurrection, 9% up compared to 2022. Younger adults are the most likely to hold this view.

Growing up in an Evangelical church in the Middle East, the question of an Evangelical Christian’s relationship to power was not something we discussed. Still, we faced one less temptation.

Entitled ‘Os elixidos’, the series will be broadcast in the language spoken by 2.4 million people in north-western Spain.

The satisfaction that Jesus rendered to divine justice through His work on the cross is perfect, so all that remains for us is to sing.

Never has anyone shown such great love at the hour of their death, never has anyone spoken with such a pastoral heart. The Good Shepherd, the Prince of Shepherds died pastoring his sheep.

The Faithful: Women of the Bible “is about discovering and losing love, the challenges of marriage, the joys and heartbreak of children, confronting temptation, and finding faith”.

War reshapes the future. It robs children of their innocence and replaces it with fear. It cripples economies, fractures societies, and plants seeds of hatred that can last for generations. 

The United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands also feature in the world’s Top 15 for religious diversity. The main competitor is not Islam, but religious non-affiliation, a study confirms.

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.

The complexity of the international situation requires believers not to remain silent in indifference or to clamour in partisanship, but to speak clearly, as a result of a conscience formed by Scripture. A commentary by the Italian Evangelical Alliance.

In an interview with Evangelical Focus, the secretary general of the World Evangelical Alliance urges Christians to be sensitive to the reality of Iranians and to be careful not to impose their perceptions or eschatologies from cultures far removed from the Middle East.

In Jordan, there is “no panic in the streets but definitely a collective awareness that the region can shift overnight”. Churches are “calling for focused prayer gatherings, encouraging believers not to spread fear”, the Christian leader says.

A pastor of the Iranian church in Barcelona analyses the impact of the fall of the Ayatollah regime’s leadership and the situation of Iranian Christians in the diaspora, where they hope for rapid political and social change that will restore religious freedom in the country.

I had the privilege of traveling to Malta to learn from ministry partners in the Middle East. Watching the side by side in the region and beyond, I was reminded once again of the blessing that comes when we collectively seek the Kingdom of God.

Human rights violations against Iranian Christians include “imprisonment, exile and forced labour”, says a new report.

“If we don’t register, they’ll come to every service and stop it”, says the pastor of one of the churches after being interrogated by Russian police in the occupied Luhansk region.