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.

To identify the entire evangelical community with certain political movements or with media images from the United States is not only unfair, but deeply misguided.

Trump’s ‘Great America’ is that of an immature child who holds gladiator fights in which victory is achieved by beating and humiliating the opponent. Why are evangelicals ceding their influence to this kind of leadership?

Great nations are marked by justice, not mere strength. They respect truth rather than propaganda. They cultivate responsibility alongside freedom. They produce citizens who understand that rights and duties belong together.

The evangelical identity must be lived out in a responsible and credible manner, starting with local churches and being part of evangelical networks that deserve the name. A perspective from Rome, Italy.

The president of the Italian Evangelical Alliance calls for the term ‘evangelical’ to be freed from political affiliations and denounces the “blasphemy” of pastors such as Paula White who compare Trump to Jesus Christ.

Corrie Ten Boom and her sister Betsie demonstrated that the ability to love and forgive when surrounded by hatred is a form of freedom no tyrant can touch. For the sisters, inner freedom became a form of spiritual resistance.

Victor Glover is not the first Christian astronaut: others like him have also recited the Lord’s Prayer during the countdown to their space journey.

The entity criticises the ruling by the Finnish Supreme Court, which acquitted Räsänen of charges relating to her social media posts of 2019 but convicted her of keeping accessible a text published two decades ago.

Suspended in the vast blackness, our planet appeared not as a battleground of competing powers, but as a delicate, radiant sphere—fragile yet hospitable and astonishingly alive. 

An election crucial to Europe's future divides Christians.

A shocking court ruling will cause Christian defenders of Trump to say “See, everything we say about Europe is right”.

The Spanish evangelical body issues a statement analysing the assisted death of the young woman and warns that the right response to suffering is not to hasten death, but to increase care.

Christianity functions as culture rather than discipleship. The faith becomes a symbol of belonging rather than a call to transformation.

Sadly, when both Moscow and Washington talk ‘peace’ but do war, and trust between allies has been eroded by bellicose behaviour, we have a new reality to face.

In an interview with Evangelical Focus, the secretary general of the World Evangelical Alliance urges Christians to be sensitive to the reality of Iranians and to be careful not to impose their perceptions or eschatologies from cultures far removed from the Middle East.

Christian leaders partnering in the Middle East lament the conflict after the Israeli and US attacks on Iran. They call to seek reconciliation and pray for the protection of the most vulnerable.

I had the privilege of traveling to Malta to learn from ministry partners in the Middle East. Watching the side by side in the region and beyond, I was reminded once again of the blessing that comes when we collectively seek the Kingdom of God.

Evangelicals and other faith leaders say in a letter: “True compassion does not mean ending a life. It means accompanying those who suffer, easing their pain, supporting families”.

Around 20 European politicians travelled to the 2026 National Prayer Breakfast, where Trump said it was not possible to be a Christian and vote for the opposition, presenting himself as the greatest defender of Christians in the world.

Janet Epp Buckingham, who speaks for Christians at the UN in Geneva, explains why her answer is yes.

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.

Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, said things last week at the WEF in Switzerland that many world leaders, especially Europeans, have been thinking but have been afraid to say.

We must remember that American isolationism and European appeasement created the permissive environment in which Nazism flourished.

From Uganda to the US, Christians struggle with how to respond to rising authoritarianism.