A town in the Netherlands inhabited by a majority of Christian residents is offering a refuge to Jewish people who feel unsafe in the country as the terrorism threat has increased. The local council in Urk, formerly an island within the province of Flevoland, made the publicly open invitation to allow Jews to settle in the town, set in the heart of the so-called Dutch Bibleland.
Legislation passed in the UK to permit pregnancy termination at any point up to birth is dissonant with the public outcry against a paramedic who induced an abortion without his partner's consent. While the value of personal choice as a priority reconciles the two cases, it doesn't satisfy biblical morality. Every abortion is a loss to God, as is every life not surrendered to Jesus. Christians need to uphold human dignity rooted in this truth.
Religious leaders and communities are being asked by Ukrainian faith leaders to pray for the victory of truth and a just peace for Ukraine, confident in the knowledge that God acts in history and can change everything, including stopping the bloodshed. Ukrainian Independence Day is being tagged as a special opportunity to stand in solidarity with Ukraine.
A stranger in a strange land describes a temporary migrant to Seoul, South Korea who over four years learns to navigate its strangeness to gradually find community within the strangeness. Along the way she learned important lessons for us all to heed well—to love the stranger, for in doing so we are blessed.
The Quiet Revival may speak of mostly young and white new Christians, but if revival theories hold true, this movement was prayed into being and more likely than not those prayers were from black, brown, and Pentecostal migrants to the UK. As growth continues, there is an urgent need to provide options for robust theological education to new leaders.
Protestant Christians in Türkiye continued to face opposition for practicing their faith in 2023, according to a rights report.
A Christian lecturer fired by a Bible college in England for tweeting about human sexuality had his sacking upheld by a LGBT activist purporting to be “independent”, an employment tribunal heard. Dr Aaron Edwards, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, has taken legal action against Cliff College, publicized to be an evangelical Methodist Bible college in Derbyshire, after his sacking last March. The college claims to be “an evangelical learning community which is rooted in God’s Word and
In recognition of a new era in global missions with greater participation by the Global South, a recently formed group of mission, church and market-place leaders from Asia and Latin America issued a communique with recommendations for mission practice for the Majority World. Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, from May 1-3, 2024, the group emphasizes the importance of unity and partnership in missions and hopes the recommendations would start off conversations in the global Church.
Attorneys from the Spanish Foundation of Christian Lawyers have filed a legal challenge against the local government in Catalonia for showing inappropriate gender sex education videos to children as young as three years old. The lawyers presented the case before the Administrative Litigation Court of Barcelona today (June 5). The appeal asks for the Generalitat of Catalonia to withdraw the video stories made by three LGBT+ associations for the Department of Equality.
The Bulgarian Rule of Law Institute celebrated three decades of fighting for biblical justice in Bulgaria and South East Europe with a special forum focused on the importance of integrity. The ‘30 Years of Rule of Law Institute (RLI) Forum’ took place at the Sveta Sofia Hotel, in the city of Sofia from May 31 to June 1. The theme was “Integrity as a quality of character, concept, essence and practice.”
Russian authorities want an elderly archbishop to pay for the demolition of his own church building for “repeated crimes” after he criticized the invasion of Ukraine.
A German Christian content creator has completed a yearlong journey across ten European countries by e-bike to explore and document Christian unity, according to an interview with the evangelical publication Medienmagazin Pro. Carola Mehltretter, who launched the YouTube channel Rooted as One, spent over 12 months traveling alone from country to country, relying on the hospitality of local churches and believers.
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