In Switzerland, 6 per cent of the population are Muslim. Parliamentarians who fear the Islamisation want more control by local councils over mosques and their funding. But such laws would affect evangelical free churches as well. 

On 25 September, numerous schools will hold compulsory lessons in which the usual curriculum will be replaced by content about the Pope. The Minister for Education has authorised the move, on condition that no spiritual practices are imposed.

Participants of the Global Forum for Life, Family and Freedoms agreed to set up a convening committee to create the ProLife Core Group, started with the Geneva Consensus Declaration.

The law approved by the Spanish Government seeks to redress the injustice suffered by pastors and their families who were prevented from making social security contributions during the Franco regime and the early years of democracy.

Governments may employ a “divide-and-rule” strategy to weaken civil and religious groups. Wounds from violent conflict can fester, keeping Christian communities divided even after the war has ended.

The case of a father who was barred by the Spanish courts from taking his young son to church or teaching him about the faith, due to the mother’s opposition, has been referred to the European Court of Human Rights.

David Smith, the government’s Special Envoy for Religious Freedom, visited Ukraine in July. In the country's occupied territories, people only can worship freely in Russian Orthodox Churches, he says.

Members of the European Parliament and expert organisations such as the European Evangelical Alliance call on Mairead McGuiness in Brussels to contact governments that fail to protect this human right: both within and outside Europe.

The Ukrainian Prayer Breakfast was a reminder that spiritual leadership remains essential in times of crisis.

Sergiy Melyanets and Natallia Vasilevich, who live outside the country, have been added to Russia's Federal Wanted List at the request of Belarus.

Penzberg is the first to list the mosque alongside the Catholic and Protestant churches. The town’s religious leaders are in agreement, but a survey shows that the majority of Germans reject it.

“The situation is undeniably difficult because we are deprived of fellowship. But God’s work must not stop”, says a church leader. 

The “Hate Crime 2025” report of the ministry of Interior shows that Muslims were the most targeted group, followed by Jews and Christians.

Ukraine is not simply fighting for survival; it is also preserving the civic habits that make survival meaningful.

“It is a disproportionate restriction on freedom of assembly and expression”, say the organisers. The March will take place in Zurich-Oerlikon.

The provision prohibits members of the Geneva Grand Council to use religious symbols during plenary sessions. “It is a severe restriction on freedom of religion”, evangelicals say.

The Finnish Christian parliamentarian’s travel authorisation was refused, likely due to her legal case over a booklet on homosexuality dating back more than 20 years. She has been invited by the Northern Ireland Assembly to speak on religious freedom.

The Iranian authorities have ordered the eviction of 20 Armenian and Assyrian families living in the compound of Iran’s oldest Protestant church, founded in 1876.

The widespread use of AI chatbots reinforces the trend. Everything is faster, more effective, more concise. We have more answers to our queries, more information, and more tasks sorted out. But we also have less conversations. 

The current proposals undermine the role of parents and carers while also ignoring freedom of religion and belief, offering no protection for church leaders and others.

Governments around the world need to ask themselves if “human beings can become a means to satisfy the interests and desires of others”, says Italy's Minister for Family and Natality. 

The World Evangelical Alliance addressed the Austrian government at the Human Rights Council, requesting that no obstacles prevent the registration of faith minorities.

The reform of the Criminal Code, spearheaded by the government, is now going to the Senate. The Spanish Evangelical Alliance rejects the Bill because it criminalises voluntary pastoral care, and FEREDE says the government is using ambiguous wording.

The Labour government’s proposals include up to five years of prison. The Evangelical Alliance UK denounces that the definition of abusive practices is “entirely subjective”. Christian Concern speaks of “a ban on conversations”.

I have friends and readers on both sides of this issue, and I would like to keep it that way. Fifty years ago, gay people were widely stigmatized as perverts; today, defenders of a traditional view of sexuality are delegitimized as bigots.