“It is the result of the Roman Catholic Church covering up sexual scandals”, a study says. There were also almost 40,000 resignations among Reformed Protestants.

Herrnhut, recognised as a World Heritage Site, was established by refugees fleeing from the Catholic Counter-Reformation in Bohemia and Moravia.

Despite the continuing decline, the Roman Catholic Church continues to represent 24% of the population. The national Protestant Church also lost hundreds of thousands last year.

Political leaders support a course on Protestantism and democratic freedoms. The new democratic memory law “will include the Spanish Protestants”.

Around 450 Christians from various denominations gathered in Prague to engage in prayers for the country at the National Day of Prayer.

Members of the Russian Evangelical Alliance traveled to Shanghai, Nanjing and Beijing to meet leaders of the China Christian Council.

A farmer I met had just left the Lutheran Church and joined a neo-pagan community. “Unlike Christianity, people here live in harmony with nature”, he told me. “Here, man is still man and woman - woman”.

Reinhardt Schink of the Evangelical Alliance says “forms of church can be adapted” but warns against decisions that strengthen individualism and “weaken the community of believers”.

Its daily contents and the contribution of hundreds of authors since 2003, make it the largest evangelical news website in Spain. The celebration gathered friends and supporters.

Annette Kurschus, head of the EKD, says recent reports of her knowing about alleged sexual abuses years ago were unfounded. 

Politicians, diplomats and intercessors from the Nordic and Baltic nations gathered in Helsinki for a prayer breakfast near the Finnish parliament.

In Germany, only 1.6% read the Bible every day, although half of the population is a member of one of the historic churches.

Official statistics conclude that free evangelical Christians (below 5%) pray and attend worship services more than other faith groups.

Around 300 people joined an experimental 45-minute programme of the German Evangelical Church. 98% was created and performed by machines.

The mainline EKD loses 2.9% of its membership in only one year. For the first time, the figure exceeds the number of deaths of members.

Ratzinger was concerned that Luther’s interpretation of the Christian ministry as mainly characterized by preaching, prayer, and pastoral care ware becoming widespread in Catholic circles.

Through books, conferences and media appearances, he spread the gospel and the history of Protestants and evangelical churches in Spain.

Lucio Malan was asked to explain his opposition to same-sex marriage and quoted the Old Testament. He is a member of the Protestant Waldesian Church but disagrees with its liberal approach to sexual morality.

The mainline Reformed Church in the Canton of Vaud was the last to adopt a new marriage rite. The position of the theologically evangelical minority inside the Swiss Reformed Church was defeated again.

In recent years, we have witnessed a growing fascination with Thomas Aquinas and Thomism by evangelical theologians.

The project, offered by the Evangelical Council to show the impact of Reformed faith in theSpanish city, received full support from the authorities.

According to the national census, over 45% of Northern Irish people identify with the Catholic faith, while 43.5% identify with one of the branches of Protestantism.

Although it is an issue largely unnoticed by the media, many elite Kenyan runners openly talk about their Christian faith as the reason for their success.

Historical images of schools founded by Protestant churches have been presented in Barcelona. "They stood out for their innovative teaching methods”,  organisers say.

A majority of regional presbyteries of the Church of Scotland are ready to approve the draft law in May.