Tthey move with great ease by means of the lateral undulations of their bodies. They can do this because their skeletons are made up of short, broad and floating vertebrae.

Under the theme 'Shine Called to Influence’, the meeting “does not seek to be massive, but strategic”, says president of Assemblies of God in Spain, Juan Carlos Escobar. 

Inclusion is about the church taking positive action, not expecting a child, young person, or adult, to ‘fit in’.

Dutch Christian MEP, Bert-Jan Ruissen has organised the exposition. “The EU has a moral duty to credibly protect freedom of religion”, he said in the opening.

Thousands of people took the streets for the right to life. As in the years before, counter-protests tried to block the March For Life.

Boring people through preaching is too dangerous to let it happen even once more.

Several groups in neighbouring Spain have set up channels to give. Christians in Morocco join the efforts to support survivors.

“Our evangelist was killed because of his passion for preaching the good news of Jesus Christ, especially to Muslims”, said the pastor of Bere’s church in Uganda.

In the traditional ceremony, evangelicals pastors called for unity, reconciliation and justice. Freedom of worship should be enshrined in the Constitution, they said.

The European Commission now must decide whether it implements legislation. Evangelical associations are positive about the move.

The European Parliament building, with its circular auditorium for parliamentary gatherings, is built right over the Maalbeek-swamp. Recently the building was discovered to be sinking –about one centimetre each year.

“If suicide is already a taboo subject, it is even more invisible in the socially vulnerable population”, said organisers of a conference.

The belief in reincarnation grows among Catholics, finds a survey. The young are more anxious about death than the older generations.

I am concerned that the Western church is choosing the way of fear, isolation, defensiveness. Or worse, the way of anger.

Looking for God's will always carries with it the condition of obeying Him at any cost.

I decided to get proactive about joy this year. I would work at an enjoyable pace, revising my to-do list whenever joy started to ebb.

A month after the attack on a Christian colony in Faisalabad, Imran, a Pakistani Christian, analyses the situation on the ground. “Churches fear a repetition”, he says.

It is amazing that a doctor and member of the parliament is now one of the most visible evangelists in Finland.

The massive gathering of the Vie et Lumière churches in France has traditionally faced the opposition of local authorities. But no incidents were recorded, says the police.

When we preach the Bible, let’s not settle for a tips-for-life kind of relevance.

The new tennis icon has clearly expressed how a relationship with God and the church family is core to her life. But most profiles in the media just ignore it.

The film on child trafficking began to be screened in a dozen of Eastern European countries in August. In the UK, it was the fourth most seen movie the first weekend.

Around 1980 the center of gravity of the church had moved out of the West into the Majority World. With this shift, some of the relative strengths and weaknesses of Western Christianity have become increasingly clear.

“It is vital that we do not turn a blind eye to this phenomenon in our churches”, says the Czech Evangelical Alliance. One in five women have been victims.

In the Southern European country, evangelical churches are the religious minority that grows the most, nearly tripling the presence of Muslim worship places.