Christians & European Elections (2). Evangelical voices in six countries agree on seeking more collaboration and foresight to maintain peace. Most rule out pacifist approaches.

Christians & European elections. In the Netherlands and Romania, believers express disappointment with the main ideologies in Brussels. In France and Italy, the EU is perceived as distant.

The 7th edition of the Month of the Bible mobilises over 200 bookshops to “put the Bible in the spotlight” under the theme “When Bible and sport team up”.

An evangelical feminist in Spain looks with sadness at the constitutionalisation of abortion in the neighbouring country.

When decriminalising abortion in 1975, the famous feminist Simone Veil called on the next generations to “preserve the supreme value of life”, recalls the CNEF.

Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens beautifully tells the story of a poor migrant farmer family facing “ordinary racism” far from home.

President Macron, who urged to make the changes “as soon as possible”, seeks to present France as a champion of women rights worldwide.

The National Council of Evangelicals in France strengthens its action to identify abuses and listen to victims from church contexts.

A final text is expected for March. An evangelical bioethics group laments the lack of effective efforts to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

The venue in Besançon was chosen because it is well served. “It is not the place that makes the church, it is the people who make it”, says the pastor.

Gabriel Attal is 34 years old, openly gay and raised as an Orthodox Christian.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez seeks a national agreement to stop the “epidemic”. Spain is the EU country with highest consumption of porn among minors. Evangelical groups have long called for this issue to be addressed.

Macron’s government wants to see more Muslim preachers trained in France. The step is connected to the 2020 anti-separatism law to fight radical Islamism.

The National Council of Evangelicals in France organised a gala dinner, “to encourage and honour those who bear a public evangelical witness on social media”.

Research looks at how the young in France see secularism. People between 18 and 30 are more tolerant of religious symbols in public.

Evangelical experts in the labour world look at the proposal to reduce the working hours to 37.5 per week.

The National Council of Evangelicals in France approved a document to “bring vision and unity to the mission of the churches, without denying their diversity”.

The people who walked in darkness, with a leader like Napoleon, remained in darkness.

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.

A survey in France shows that 76% of evangelicals know of Bible passages related to environmental care. Jean-François Mouhot (A Rocha) sees “a generational change in the churches”.

In France, evangelical Christians are more engaged than others in ecological matters. But some are also suspicious about ideological trends, a survey has found. We asked Jean-François Mouhot, director of A Rocha, about creation care, theology and churches.

During the pandemic, the French Bible Alliance started the Manuscript Bible. Public figures such as footballer Olivier Giroud or doctor Denis Mukwege copied passages.

Nine websites that have no age verification systems have been blocked. By age 12, nearly a third have already been exposed to such contents.

Reactions from evangelical Christians in France, UK, Spain, Germany, and the European Evangelical Alliance.

The future of the building is uncertain, it needs a 870,000 euros renovation. The site “represents the living memory of a Europe immersed in a cruel war”, says a historian.