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Japan Joins IFFEC: Four Church Bodies Enter the Free Evangelical Family as One Federation

A Japanese federation of four church bodies was welcomed as a new member at IFFEC Worldwide 2026 in Kenya.

16 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Japanese delegates standing beside an IFFEC speaker at the membership agreement slide

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Europe's Free Evangelical Churches Planted 227 Congregations in a Decade. Net, They Have 64 Fewer.

A new comparative report on 24 federations finds that church planting is a normal part of church life across Europe's Free Evangelical family, that a reported plant is often not yet a congregation, and that the numbers a fellowship keeps about itself are less solid than they look.

11 Oct 2026 · 3 min read

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Liberia: From a Refugee Camp to a National Church Fellowship

Orphaned as a child and educated in exile, Moses Womleh now chairs Liberia's newly formed Free Evangelical fellowship. This week he travels to Kenya to meet the worldwide Free Evangelical family for the first time.

26 Sep 2026 · 3 min read

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Mass Baptisms Return to Britain’s Beaches and Lakes

Mass Baptisms Return to Britain’s Beaches and Lakes

A growing number of churches across the United Kingdom are taking baptism out of the building and into open water. In the summer of 2025, around 1,000 people from

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30 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Switzerland: Free Church Theologians Ask What Spirituality Looks Like After 65

About fifty people spent three days in September at the Evangelical Church of the Amandiers in Lavigny, in the Swiss canton of Vaud, exploring a question that churches rarely address

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30 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Sweden: After 32 Years, a Missionary's Daughter Returns to Congo — Carrying Her Father's Book

Kristina Lindström was ten years old in 1979 when her family left Sweden for what was then Zaire, where her father, Gösta Stenström, had taken a post as a doctor

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30 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

Image: Suomen Vapaakirkko / Suomen Viikkolehti

Finland: 77 Young Free Church Volunteers Sent to Ten Mission Teams in Seven Countries

Seventy-seven young people from Finland's Free Church congregations gave up their summer holidays this year to join short-term mission teams organised by The Legacy Project, the

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30 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Czech Republic: Church of the Brethren Opens Church-Wide Debate on Ordaining Women

The Council of the Church of the Brethren (Církev bratrská), one of the Czech Republic's historic free evangelical churches, has opened a church-wide conversation on the ordination

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30 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Estonia: Free Churches Mark Creation Care Month With a Call to Repair, Reuse and Share

Estonia's free evangelical churches have marked September as Creation Care Month with a reflection arguing that care for the natural world and care for one's neighbour

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29 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Finland: Free Church Leader Says Antisemitism Is 'Racism and Sin'

The leader of the Finnish Free Church (Suomen Vapaakirkko), Tommi Koivunen, has stated in the church's newspaper that antisemitism is a flagrant form of racism and is "

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29 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Finland: A Free Church Congregation's Own 'Grandma's House' Cares for Its Elderly

The Free Church congregation in Kitee, in eastern Finland, has a feature few congregations can claim: its own "mummola", the Finnish word for a grandmother's home.

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29 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Sweden: Five Congregations Form Joint Equmeniakyrkan Association in Örebro

Five congregations of Equmeniakyrkan in the Swedish city of Örebro have voted to form a joint association. Around a hundred people gathered at Betelkyrkan on Saturday, where delegates from Equmeniakyrkan

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29 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

Free Evangelical World — Week 40, 2026

Free Evangelical World — Week 40, 2026

This edition covers a fortnight, after no digest appeared for Week 39. Its lead story is historic: the free evangelical family gathers on African soil for the first time, as

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28 Sep 2026 · 9 min read

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Cuba: From an Empty Pantry to a Dining Hall Serving Fifty Elderly People a Week

In the western Cuban city of Cárdenas, about 150 kilometres from Havana, an Alliance pastor and his wife who once knelt in prayer before a completely empty pantry now run

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28 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

Image: LaFree (Fédération Romande d'Églises Évangéliques)

Switzerland: Federal Fast Draws Two Contrasting Visions of Faith in Public Life

The Swiss Federal Fast (Jeûne fédéral) has prompted two markedly different readings of the day's meaning in the canton of Vaud. On one side, Vaudois Christians close to

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28 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Finland: Free Church Identity Revisited Through the Legacy of Sulo Santeri Salmensaari

What is the identity of the Finnish Free Church, and what kind of church does each of its members want to help build? Those questions framed a lecture by Tommi

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28 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Sweden: New Testament 2026 Published With Notable Translation Choices

The Swedish Bible Society (Svenska bibelsällskapet) has published a new translation of the New Testament, NT26, presenting the text at the Gothenburg Book Fair. Reporting ahead of the launch highlighted

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28 Sep 2026 · 1 min read

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Germany: FeG President Calls Congregations to Be 'Spaces of Trust' and Restates Zero Tolerance on Abuse

The president of the Bund Freier evangelischer Gemeinden (FeG), Henrik Otto, has used the closing instalment of a three-part series in the federation's magazine Christsein Heute to

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28 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

Uganda: Training Pastors Before the Law Arrives

Uganda: Training Pastors Before the Law Arrives

As Uganda debates who may lead a church, pastor and teacher Eria Ssekandi is trying to get pastors trained before any new rules take effect.

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27 Sep 2026 · 3 min read

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United States: Billy Graham's Granddaughter Nominated as US Ambassador for Religious Freedom

The United States has nominated Jane "Cissie" Graham Lynch, a granddaughter of evangelist Billy Graham, to serve as its ambassador for international religious freedom. The nomination, announced by

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27 Sep 2026 · 1 min read

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Burkina Faso: Young Woman Who Lost Her Village to Extremists Finds New Life Through the Church

A young woman in Burkina Faso whose village was destroyed in a religious-extremist attack has found healing, community and a new livelihood through a local Alliance church, according to

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27 Sep 2026 · 2 min read