The country held parliamentary elections in September. The Islamic Action Front party won 31 seats, the largest number of seats for a party in parliament.

Martin Accad, president of a theological seminary in Beirut, analyses the critical situation on the ground. “Though we often feel helpless, we never feel hopeless”.

A Baptist church in Zahlé hosts 150 people who fled the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in the south. They were already working with Syrian refugees.

The exclusion of God from our lives inevitably leads to an escalation of violence, as James writes in his New Testament letter.

A Christian perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Supreme Court unanimously rules to end the exemption that allowed Haredi youths to be exempted from military. A “symbolic and important” decision.

From the UN's views on LGBT issues and religious freedom to evangelical movements in Europe tackling issues of the day. These are the ten stories you've read and shared the most this year.

Whenever we see a Christmas star these dark days, we can be encouraged that the Light of the Gentiles has indeed come.

Five hundred participants at the European Parliament Prayer Breakfast in Brussels last Wednesday listened intently to a Palestinian Christian leader and others who are suffering under the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Almost all political parties were represented in the peaceful march. The French National Council of Evangelical Christians condemns the one thousand antisemitic acts recorded in recent weeks.

The European Evangelical Alliance publishes two calls to action amidst the rising tensions in the context of the Israel-Gaza war.

Vengeance begets vengeance, but Christians should be able to show that another way is possible, writes a Palestinian Christian journalist in Jordan.

It is not a question of a siege of Gaza, nor of the collapse of the two-state solution. It is about the existence of Israel in a territory which Hamas claims belongs entirely to Islam

Wonderful enrichment for life and haunting warnings await us if we just travel into the Bible with our hearts open and ready to learn.

According to a survey conducted in the United Kingdom, the perfect Sunday “consists of waking up at 8:30 am to the smell of breakfast, a cuddle and three hours of television”.

In Switzerland, newly disembarked from the aeroplane, I notice certain details which had not shocked me before.

‘This song was written by one of ours, Sadhu Sundar Singh! A role model etched in each of our hearts,’ they yell at me.

All the way through that first night in India, bursts of noises from the streets climb all the way up the walls to infiltrate the badly soundproofed windows of my hotel room and arouse my Western feeling of security.