A comment on the conversation around Scottish government minister Kate Forbes, her Christian faith and potential bid to be Scotland’s First Minister.

Evangelicals in the area suffer persecution since 2016, with physical attacks, property destruction, looting, jail, and a ban of the use of water wells and schooling their children.

In the last decade, the Italian Evangelical Alliance has represented the demands of the evangelical world internally (prayer), externally (religious freedom), and in the international arena (relations with Catholicism).

A Sikh warrior group warned them against worship and conversions.

“The ideas of the Reformers spread rapidly throughout Europe, emphasising freedom of conscience”, stressed an evangelical leader at the presentation of the initiative.

The Christian politician has won in two lower courts the right to express her Christian beliefs on homosexuality, but the public prosecutor hopes to win in Finland’s top court.

Over 13,000 dead and nine million displaced in a forgotten conflict. “It doesn't get the same attention as other wars in the world”, says a Christian in the region.

United Nations experts say Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence.

Fines of up to 10,000 euros for those who address someone by their former gender. The opposition denounces consequences of a “dangerous madness” for young people.

The World, European and Portuguese Evangelical Alliances  submit a report on the religious situation in Portugal for the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Over 100 leaders working against human trafficking and commercial exploitation from 27 countries gathered in Portugal for the European Freedom Network annual conference.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide launches a report on Cuban government “hardline tactics”, amid recent protests on the island due to the food and public services crisis.

School handbooks now explain that all hate crimes should be reported to the police. The police are to set up reporting centres throughout Scotland where you can go and ‘clipe’ (a Scots word for snitch or tell-tale) on anyone.

“Extremism is the promotion of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance”, says the new legal definition of the government. Evangelical organisations see a risk in “subjective” decisions about what beliefs can or cannot be expressed.

The false blasphemy charges had led to Muslims attacking Christian homes and businesses in Pakistan last year, forcing hundreds to flee.

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.

Both the European Commission and the Parliament are addressing the problem of hate crimes. But without a clear definition of what “hate” is, we will not solve the problem, writes Arie de Pater of the European Evangelical Alliance in Brussels.

A report by a Nigerian organisation shows that over 8,000 people were killed in the country in 2023 because of their Christian faith.

The government creates a new directorate for religious affairs. Reforming the 1980 religious freedom law remains a priority.

“Jesus Christ teaches us not to kill and he followed this also”, said a Baptist sentenced with two-year jail term for refusing military service.

A discussion on the influence of ideologies on fundamental freedoms in society opened the annual meeting of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance.

In the House of Lords, the bill is criticised as an attack on freedom of speech, religious freedom and parenting. “It would make illegal expressing some of the profoundest beliefs”.

Jazz Cow “reluctantly leads a group of artists, poets and misfits in resisting Dr Popp’s technocratic world of algorithms and fake filters”. Creator John Lumgair hopes to deliver a thoughtful social satire “with a big heart”.

A street preacher was wrongfully detained and won £15,000 in damages and legal costs, but the police logged in a 'non-crime hate incident report' against him.

Open Doors publishes a new edition of the World Watch List identifying as many as 78 countries with high levels of hostility against Christianity in the world. North Korea and Nigeria stand out among those with “extreme persecution”.