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Finland/Israel: Young Believers in Israel Grow from 60 to 600 per Conference, Netivah Leader Reports
Joel Goldberg, director of Netivah Youth Ministries in Israel, reports that attendance at the organisation's conferences has grown tenfold — from around 60 participants in its early years to
Global: WEA Calls for Precise Hate Speech Standards That Protect Religious Expression
Marking the United Nations' International Day for Countering Hate Speech on 18 June, the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has called for carefully calibrated legal standards that distinguish between genuine
Finland: Missionary's Car Gift Supports Bible Translation and Field Workers Across the Nordic Country
A long-serving missionary has donated her car to the Free Church of Finland's mission arm, SVK Missio, to support colleagues travelling between assignments across the Nordic country.
Sweden: Broad Consensus on Existential Health Emerges at Almedalen Panel
Beneath Sweden’s polarised public debate over existential health — dismissed by some as woolly thinking while others point to rising mental illness — a broad consensus is taking shape among researchers,
Sweden: 'Spaghetti Church' Revives a Dying Congregation's Connection to Families
A small Equmeniakyrkan congregation in rural southern Sweden has found an unexpected path to renewal through spaghetti dinners, crafts, and devotions. Örserums missionsförsamling, which once ran active scout and youth
Sweden: Study Finds Swedish Youth Experience Less Meaning Than International Peers
Swedish teenagers and young adults score significantly lower on measures of meaning and purpose than both older Swedes and their peers in other countries, according to findings from the Global
Finland: Free Church Voices Call for Christian Early Childhood Education to Reach Rural Villages
Finland now has more than thirty Christian daycare centres, most of them established since the early 2000s. But according to a new vision published in the Finnish free church weekly
Finland: From Foreign Legion and Addiction to Forty Years of Faith — A Free Church Testimony
In 1987, in a Christian rehabilitation home in the small Finnish town of Parkano, a world-weary man knelt beside his bed and asked God to forgive his sins. That
Finland–Pakistan: Free Church Leader Witnesses 37 Baptisms Amid Brick-Kiln Communities
In the brick-making communities of Pakistan's Lahore region, where entire families are trapped in cycles of debt bondage passed down through generations, a Finnish free church leader
Sweden: Equmeniakyrkan Hosts Almedalen Dialogue on Movement Leadership and Collective Identity
At Sweden's Almedalen political week, Equmeniakyrkan together with study associations Sensus and Bilda hosted a seminar exploring a question that resonates far beyond Swedish civil society: do today&
Mauritius: WEA Leader Calls for Gospel-Driven Peacebuilding at Religions for Peace Council
At the Religions for Peace 2026 International Council Meeting in Mauritius, the Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), Rev. Botrus Mansour, called on faith communities gathered from across
Finland: Free Church Writer Explores the Sabbath as Gift of Rest, Not Burden of Rules
Finnish free church writer Juha Mikkonen has published a theological reflection on the Sabbath in Suomen Viikkolehti, the weekly newspaper of the Evangelical Free Church of Finland, tracing the biblical
Global: WEA Director Reflects on the Father's Blessing as a Gift Shared Through Christ
As Father's Day was marked across North America, Europe, and parts of Asia on June 21, a senior World Evangelical Alliance leader has published a reflection arguing that
USA: ECC Feature Traces the Priesthood of All Believers from Pentecost to the Present
A new feature article from the Evangelical Covenant Church traces the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers from the Day of Pentecost to its implications for how congregations understand
Sweden: Gospel Concerns All of Life, Says Equmeniakyrkan Leader at Almedalen
Equmeniakyrkan is participating in Sweden's Almedalen Week for the fifteenth consecutive year, with church leader Karin Wiborn arguing that Christian faith cannot be separated from public life and
Sweden: Prison Pastor Tells Almedalen Churches Must Join the Fight Against Youth Crime
A prison chaplain serving in the Stockholm area has issued an urgent call for Swedish churches to become directly involved in addressing the recruitment of teenagers into organised criminal networks,
Sweden: Apologetics Requires Living Congregations, Not Just Arguments, Says Swedish Theologian
Christian apologetics — the rational defence of the faith — needs more than clever arguments to be effective, according to Swedish theologian Emmanuel Bäckryd. Writing in Sändaren, the independent Christian newspaper serving
Finland: Missionary Dick Brogden Calls Christians to Serve in Regions Without Any Church Presence
Missionary Dick Brogden has issued what he describes as a "dangerous call" — an invitation to Christians to consider serving in regions of the world where the gospel has