Abusers set up new churches, preach again about God’s love, receive official recognition from ‘the good people’, and host lavish meals to celebrate their own success. Victims try to rebuild their own life, in silence.
How can we respond with grace and truth to stories of leaders who fall?
The Church wants to help. However, generosity without a clear understanding of the issue can inadvertently sustain systems that do not serve children as well as we hope. And the evidence on this is no longer ambiguous.
When people are discussing a case like this, Christians can testify to a way that takes justice for all seriously but also seeks to be scrupulously fair and hopes for mercy for all involved.
States do face real threats and evil can sometimes only be checked by force. But the lesson is clear: war is a profoundly blunt instrument for creating justice, reconciliation or lasting order.
Canals in Amsterdam overflow with boats crammed with orange-clad merrymakers. Music fills streets festooned with orange flags. Children sell old toys and homemade cakes. The old story of the Dutch triumph of freedom over Spanish imperial tyranny carries contemporary relevance.
The way we deal with cases of abuse in our communities is not a minor issue: it is a profoundly spiritual, pastoral, ethical and also missionary matter. An essay outlining three models and four mistakes that churches often make.
150 practitioners and experts serving across Europe discussed topics such as strengthening younger generations, mental health and sexual abuse prevention. The Refugee Highway Partnership organises such gatherings every year.
We have to hold out until the end, when God will publicly reveal the truth.
The European Evangelical Alliance invites believers throughout Europe to remain faithful in intercession until peace, justice, and restoration are fully realized.
Five examples of how Christians raise their voices with humour and courage to explain the precarious life without freedoms under the Castro regime.
Janet Epp Buckingham, who speaks for Christians at the UN in Geneva, explains why her answer is yes.
In contemporary Venezuela, the dictatorship does not merely tolerate but actively promotes a spirituality rooted in Cuban Santería and occult practices. This spirituality is presented not as folklore, but as a source of legitimacy—openly contradicting the Christian faith.
Trump is skillfully building an autocratic system in his own country with the support of many evangelicals. It is high time that global evangelical networks, such as the WEA or the Lausanne Movement, took a firm stance on the behaviour of the current US administration.
A training day in Madrid on abuse in Christian contexts, with experts from GRACE, explored the challenges and opportunities for restoring victims, as well as creating an integrity-based and fair church culture.
María Eugenia Prendes expressed her support for initiatives that “open the eyes to an unnoticed reality that is important to address” in faith contexts.
“We reject any misuse of Christian faith or church authority to legitimize violence, aggression, or domination”, says the European Evangelical Alliance in a new statement.
Over 500,000 Venezuelans live in Spain. Seven voices recount their experiences of migration, the daily lives of their families back at home and the mixed emotions following Maduro’s fall.
The emergence of the Dutch Republic birthed many features of the modern era. What might Ukraine’s victory over Russian tyranny and oppression mean for our future?
Appeasement only emboldens the aggressor. Can a peace plan that rewards territorial conquest—achieved through invasion, atrocities, mass deportations, and systematic destruction—ever constitute genuine peace?
Not seeing is not the same as not knowing.
The Court of Justice of the EU has ruled in favour of two men who married in Germany but whose legal union was not recognised in Poland.
Representatives of the Amsterdam Southeast district council heard that local faith communities had offered services worth over €7.65 million in social impact value last year.
We Christians should stand up for truth, compassion, righteousness and justice for all. We must persist in prayer for a just peace, for Ukrainians and for Russians.
To summarize the current landscape, two key elements emerge: boldness among Christians and hunger among non-Christians.
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