The European Parliament discussed sexual and reproductive health and rights. An analysis by the European Evangelical Alliance representative in Brussels.

Last-minute extreme attempts to allow abortion up to birth. The proposed New Clause 55 is an extreme effort to extend individual autonomy at the expense of caring for both women and their babies.

Christian psychologist Jonatan Serrano analyses the consequences of the normalisation of pornography in society. “No one would leave a child with a loaded gun in his pocket because he might hurt others or himself, but we are doing that with pornography”.

This debate is really about something much bigger: what —or who— is the basis of reality, and how does this “filter down” to the issue of gender?

It is essential that we find out what women think and what their experience has been. We also need to look into the detail of how men and women relate to each other.

The Matić report says “barriers in the access to abortion” lead to “inequalities in achieving women’s rights across the EU”. A final resolution is expected to be passed on 23 June.

Rut Skrie explains how her association is dealing with the migration crisis in Ceuta. “We are helping, but very discreetly because the people here were overwhelmed and afraid”.

New Textile Life is a textile workshop that aims to give people at risk of exclusion “an opportunity to regain an independent life”.

Carolina Bueno will become the new leader of the evangelical body in charge of negotiating agreements with the national government. “It is a chance to use my profession to serve God and the churches”.

In your church or organisation, who is being mentored? Are you mentoring women? Are you being Biblical in how you mentor your church?

Ten years after it was signed, the European Evangelical Alliance urges countries “to take seriously the harm done to women and girls” in practices such as sexual exploitation, domestic abuse or equality.

We recently ran our annual mentoring and training conference. 80 women from across Europe gathered together.

An event held in Madrid shows the successes of the Nordic model, which punishes the client, to curb trafficking and prostitution.

Milagros Aguayo was number two on the Lima list of the Renovación Popular party for the Congress. “The gospel is a tool to participate in the public life”, she says.

Women seem to have huge issues in putting themselves forward for jobs, projects or ideas that they would love to do, but yet worry they are not sufficiently qualified for.

The large majority of women who terminated their pregnancy were between 18 and 34 years old. Only 4% of abortions were due to medical or criminal reasons.

Women from a wide range of organisations and political views, including an evangelical pastor, explained the dangers of the 'trans draft law' at a round table organised by the Feminist Party.

“86% of GPs worried about women having a medical abortion past the legal limit or being coerced”, a poll finds. “The government has chosen to abandon woman to DIY abortion”.

Citizens supported the initiative despite the opposition of the parliament majority. Swiss Christians disagreed over how to protect both women and religious freedom.

Christian girls and women are “doubly vulnerable”, says Open Doors. “Preventing women from freely raising their children as Christians is an effective means of controlling the Christian population”.

The “historical” feminists have totally rejected the Spanish trans draft law because they see it as a step backwards in equality that also “endangers children”.

The formation and scope of a distinctive spirituality. An article by Daewon Moon.

Pandemic partnership for health professionals and the church. An article by Ted Lankester.

Some say a ban would restrict religious freedom, others believe the equality of women and certain security issues are at stake.

Officers and Hindu extremists threaten and beat Christian men, women and children.