A UNHCR report explained how Europe is living through a maritime refugee crisis of historic proportions.

We are grateful to the hundreds of people who have identified with the project and have used EF as a resource. More than 70,000 page views since we began.

The Comission introduces a country-by-country quota system to respond to the Mediterranean crisis. Evangelicals had asked for real solutions in recent weeks.

About 7,000 people were rescued last weekend, but 46 might have drowned. 

You can sink the boats on the African shores. And then what? A serious reflection on citizenship in the global world is needed.

The majority of migrants arriving to Europe's coasts are seeking refuge from terrorists, violence, war and persecution. They are the threatened ones.

Christel Lamère, representative of the European Evangelical Alliance in Brussels, asks for “binding agreements and tangible objectives.”

About 800 people are feared dead in the worst humanitarian tragedy happened in the sea which separates Africa and Europe. European Union's representatives discuss how to respond. An illustration by cartoonist Ricardo (El Mundo newspaper).

If confirmed, the disaster would be one of the worst seen during the decades-long migrant crisis in the southern Mediterranean.

Foreign officials of 29 countries met in Barcelona to address “the heartrending drama of illegal migration.” Italy overwhelmed after 5.600 new migrants arrived at their coasts only in last weekend.

Any term can become slippery through decades of use (or mis-use) and it is all too easy for a church with the ‘right’ name to have moved from the firm foundation of Scripture.

In these first 7 weeks online Evangelical Focus has published more than 200 articles. Have you got any stories you would like to tell us?

“There is a general sense of hopelessness because our processing system is slow and ineffective,” says Italian pastor Leonardo de Chirico.

Even with all the progress we have made in the first week, what we are most encouraged by as we take these first steps as a media project are the messages of enthusiastic support that we have been receiving from all kinds of people.