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.

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 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 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.

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”.

Evangelical representatives from France, Austria and Italy took part in an OSCE meeting held in Rome. Julia Doxat-Purser, from the European Evangelical Alliance, expressed concern about how evangelicals are portrayed in a ‘toxic atmosphere’ that increasingly fuels hatred towards ‘the other’.

Both the left and the right applauded Leo XIV's speech, in an unprecedented event in recent Spanish history.

The pastor of ‘Zeal Church’ explains the “very difficult” decision but underlines that nothing will halt “the mission of bringing God’s love to this region”. Critical media coverage only shows that free churches are once again “noticed, heard and seen” in society, says René Wagner.

Pastor Anatoly Kaluzhny recounts the destruction he found when he arrived at his church after receiving an early morning warning of a Russian attack. “I also saw God’s mercy: our worship centre and sanctuary, though significantly damaged, remained standing”.

New Life Church's Sunday School classrooms wrecked, mobile dental clinic for refugees hit, humanitarian aid vehicles affected. After the attack on 2 June, pastor Anatoly Kalushny is appealing for support to rebuild the site.

The Italian Evangelical Alliance called on Christians to give a biblical witness “in times of cultural crisis”. Theological training and church planting projects were presented.

Almost 900 evangelical leaders from 45 countries gathered in Wisla, Poland, for the 2026 edition of the European Leadership Forum. A summary of the key messages heard during the week-long evangelical gathering.

The opposition in the capital’s regional chamber warns against Pentecostal evangelicals who “brainwash people”. A party demands to stop the growing presence of church-related advertising in public spaces.

The Evangelical Fellowship India expresses “anguish” over the attack in Manipur. “The killing of unarmed church leaders returning from Christian fellowship is deeply disturbing and tragic”.

The Finnish politician has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights after the Finnish Supreme Court ruled that the booklet Man and Woman He Created Them, published in 2004, breached legislation on hate speech against homosexuals.

I was a pastor in Turkey and they branded me a political mole. In Spain, they brand me – and us evangelicals in general – as ideological infiltrators serving certain geopolitical agendas.

At a time of intense media coverage, Spanish evangelicals welcome analysis but ask that people avoid stereotyping regarding the voting habits, background or identity of their faith minority.

The attack was carried out by gunmen during a worship service in the south-west of the country.