Eucharist has been elevated to a primary identity-marker: practiced, taught, protected, abused, and used for various purposes, including extra-religious ones.

Putin’s messianic pretensions as saviour of Russian civilisation have deep religious and historical roots. Yet our western secular world tends to filter out religion and pre-Enlightenment history as irrelevant.

Muslim women today are 12 percent of the world’s population, spread across the globe. When we meet a Muslim woman, who are we meeting? What has been her experience of daily life and faith?

Streets and squares in the city will be named after women such as Isabel de Baena and Francisca de Chaves, tortured by the Spanish Inquisition.

Artsakh has approached the Peace and Reconciliation Network of the WEA that will lead to extensive trainings in trauma therapy both on the territory of Artsakh as well as in Armenia.

No one ever apologises for mistakes which are typical of people who are undocumented, uneducated and ignorant in religious culture. An article by former Vice-President of Catalonia, Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira.

Some of the criticisms that can be made against the Acts of Nicaea II, specifically its use and interpretation of historical sources and its claim to be an ecumenical council.

A long-standing religious tension stretching back many centuries has contributed significantly to the current Russian build-up, largely lost on the western secularist mind.

Over 340 million Europeans in 19 countries use the currency today. The creation of a digital euro is among the challenges ahead, which could have “far-reaching implications for societies in the future”, says a Christian analyst.

The biography of Columbanus and Robert Schuman, is a unique contribution filling a major gap in literature on the making of Europe.

The discovery was made during the recovery of a shipwreck off the coast of Caesarea, Israel.

In the face of death, a desperate person can find life in Jesus Christ. That was the experience of the Russian writer Dostoevsky when he was condemned to death along with his fellow revolutionaries.

The Asturian Bible wins the Regional Council of Culture prize for “the philological apparatus developed, the immense work for over 30 years, and its complexity”.

It is the second synagogue from that time found there, which was a key center of the Jewish life . The New Testament refers to it as the birthplace of Mary Magdalene.

Take some time out with your God and let Him stir your heart afresh. Then you can preach Christmas.

African theologians Harvey Kwiyani and Abraham Waigi assess Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s harsh criticism of the increasing influence of churches on the continent

The first believers brought Jesus to people who had never heard his name / They came with good news, and those wanting, longing found rest in the presence of the gospel lived out.

A moving video poem about the origins and the future of Europe and the church. Produced by Philip Barry for the Lausanne Europe 20/21 Gathering.

When we survey the treatment that God has received from philosophers down through the millennia, it is not hard agree with Unamuno’s assessment of the god of philosophy as “a dead thing”.

“We cannot let 800 years of worship and service fail on our watch", says the Church of England.

It is the first evidence found in Europe of these type of executions in the Roman Empire.

Plotinus is regarded as the founding father of Neo-Platonism, and influenced Saint Augustin’s thought, maybe even after the latter’s conversion to Christianity.

Who or what is the “god of the philosophers”? When we find references to “god” in the ancient teaching of oriental, Indian and Greek thinkers, who or what, are they referring to?

On 14th November the centenary was celebrated in the Igreja do Mirante, the oldest evangelical church in Porto.

Madrid hosted the presentation of the first complete Bible in the language spoken by around 200,000 people in Spain, translated from the original languages.