For Lebanese followers of Christ, the call to peacemaking is not just a moral ideal and an expression of our love for God, but also a necessity for the survival of a diverse nation.

The exclusion of God from our lives inevitably leads to an escalation of violence, as James writes in his New Testament letter.

All plenaries, workshops and roundtables were oriented towards the proclamation of the Gospel in our personal and collective spheres of influence.

The secretary general of the Russian Evangelical Alliance, Vitaly Vlasenko, calls for peace, reconciliation and an end to the war.

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.

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

The Cameroonian Evangelical church needs to recover her historical face, in order to strengthen her ecclesial and societal identity.

When the guns fell silent in 1945, peace did not automatically follow. Europe was suffering a severe case of post-trauma stress disorder over the five fearful, bitter and anxious post-war years.

An evangelical businessman was killed outside a church. Several organisations call to pray for peace and security as the government deploys the army.

The whole cosmos scrolls searching for good news. If this is not our good news moment then, pray tell, what do we think that moment will ever look like?

Four members of the evangelical denomination in Siberia and the Far East see their civilian service applications rejected.

Peace does not necessarily come as a top-down pronouncement from those in power, but can show up through ministry.

Together with many young Christians, I refused to serve in the Soviet army in 1974. Today, the questions asked by the relevant authorities have not changed much.

Vengeance begets vengeance, but Christians should be able to show that another way is possible, writes a Palestinian Christian journalist in Jordan.

As the situation in the Holy Land intensifies, the European Evangelical Alliance invites the Church to pray together.

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

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

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

The place where the Christian band Melody now meets to sing was once used as a shooting range by ISIS radicals.

When we look towards God, all other things lose their importance.

9 May marks the day in 1950 when France and Germany, laid down control of their war industries as a first step towards making war unthinkable.

Europeans are mostly oblivious of the roots of the freedoms we enjoy, unaware of how much their foundations have already been undermined.

As an evangelical Christian, I specifically call upon my brothers and sisters in faith to make the first Sunday after Easter a day of mourning for the victims of wars.

What role can faith communities in Europe today play in recovering foundations for sustainable, just and flourishing societies? 

The Peace and Reconciliation Network consultation in Nairobi named what has been lost and corrupted in Africa. What action is needed for a future where the Kingdom of God flourishes abundantly?