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

For the Gospel, the threshold is a place of transition, not of lingering. It is a one-way passage, not a platform where one is supposed to remain.

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 joint initiative of southern English evangelical churches goes on, with more than 130 people being baptised during two consecutive Sunday services.

Cuba's energy crisis has plunged entire communities into isolation, but TWR has found a way to break through and support the Cuban people in their time of need.

The heroic personal struggles that conflate the political party’s mission with one’s personal project can lead to disaster – both for the individual and for the party. Something similar happens in churches when they become a pastor’s personal project.

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”.

Football became so deeply rooted in British working-class communities because there were chapels, Sunday schools, parish rooms and young men looking for somewhere to belong, long before there were professional clubs, stadiums and television contracts.

If you are a grandparent of a child with additional needs, you can be the difference for your family between coping and crashing.

The Bible message to us is that we live in a story with a “dragon” (the snake that rules over our hearts) but there is also a “dragonslayer”: the offspring of the woman.

To be blessed by people we had led to faith and who had joined our church conveyed the life-giving power of this act with astonishing clarity.

“Welcoming my son into the world is one of the greatest blessings God has ever given me”, underlined the football star playing for Belgium, quoting James 1:17 on social media: "Every good and perfect gift is from above”.

World Vision deploys teams on the ground as the deaths of nearly 600 people are reported. “Everything went dark and everything started shaking. Children were screaming in fear”, says one eyewitness. Alianza Solidaria and GAiN are also launching emergency campaigns.

Europe would not simply sanction a private individual who supports Putin in the war, but the most important figure of the Russian Orthodox Church itself. Is that what we want?

The European Union is proposing sanctions against the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church for inciting the war against Ukraine. Tatiana Kopaleishvili of the European Evangelical Alliance sees sufficient grounds to respond to the theological justification of an unjust war.

At least 589 people have died and around have been 3,000 injured, say official reports on Friday. Affected areas include La Guaira, where a church collapsed. Thousands are trying to find relatives, pastors call to pray as Christian organisations start sending aid. 

Perhaps you are not aware of where these barriers might lie. There are different kinds: for example, architectural, communicational, attitudinal, instrumental, methodological, and so on.

They offer an attractive spirituality adorned with medieval symbols and oriental rituals. But behind this façade lies a rejection of biblical revelation, sovereign grace and the sovereignty of Christ.

 What, exactly, are we asking people to leave behind when they come to Christ? And what are we asking them to become? 

From 15 to 18 June, thirty-five participants from nine countries participated in the eight edition of the Rome Scholars and Leaders Network.

Starmer is the sixth outgoing prime minister in only ten years. "We ask for your wisdom at this time and for godly guidance for our nation”, prays the Evangelical Alliance.

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.

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.

International participants are invited to attend three weeks of interactive discussions, taking place in July, on Christian values in cities, countries and at European level, organised by the Schuman Centre for European Studies.

Once more, I listened gratefully to biblical concepts being uncompromisingly stated in the European Parliament building, including that human dignity derived solely from the understanding of humanity as created in God’s image.