What was the most read of 2025 on Evangelical Focus?

A few days ago, we presented the topics we have followed closely this year. There, we believe, were the most important stories of the last 12 months.

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But now it’s time to give you a voice, the readers. Both those of you who faithfully receive our newsletters and read us at least once a week, and those who may have visited us after a random search on Google or ChatGPT.

These are the most visited Evangelical Focus articles published in 2025:

10. The dangerous fake news about a ‘Christian genocide’ in Syria, a column written in March by Open Doors Spain.

9. Iraqi Christian “tiktoker” murdered in France while broadcasting live, a tragic story from Lyon in September.

8. The new Pope begins with the old indulgences, a first approach to the election of Robert Prevost Martinez has head of the Roman Catholic Church, in May. By Leonardo De Chirico from Rome.

7. New data in France shows that evangelicals are now the majority of Protestants, a change in the spiritual landscape of a country still shaped by secularism. Published in March.

6. Does the Bible have anything to say about tariffs and trade wars? Yes and very much, responded Moisés Contreras, an expert in financial discipleship, in April.

5. “Francis seemed so close, yet he was so far away from the gospel” Also in April, we analysed the legacy of Pope Francis in an interview.

4. A “fundamental ethical shift” in Scotland: dozens of church leaders sign letter against assisted dying bill. The bill was brought to parliament in May.

3. The Vatican says “Mary is not co-redemptrix”: what does it mean? Will the Roman Church become more Protestant? We asked Leonardo De Chirico in November.

2. Franklin Graham: “I do not work for Trump, millions who voted for him made him president”. In May, our journalist Daniel Hofkamp asked about the evangelist’s connections with the US president, during a press conference in Berlin.

1. The risks of appeasing Trump. Christian analyst in the US, Bruce Barron, looked into the chaotic first weeks of the new president and asks Christian leaders to keep their own independent voice, in March.

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