Six Equmeniakyrkan congregations in Dalsland, western Sweden, have spent about a year testing whether they can call and employ staff together instead of separately. The initiative, known as Växtpool Dalsland
Four Christian communities at the foot of the Jura mountains in western Switzerland have jointly invited the Rochette Gospel Choir to give a concert in the great hall of Apples
In a remote village in Asia, a man identified as Iresh became the first person in his community to follow Jesus, according to an account published by The Alliance Canada
A church-run summer school in Ngabé, on the Congo River a few hours north of Brazzaville, closed its 2026 term on 30 September with 70 pupils, Equmeniakyrkan reported. Lessons
A small congregation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has described living “in the midst of war, massacre and tears”, and has asked partner churches abroad to remember four
A Russian guided glide bomb struck two passenger minibuses in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, at about 10 a.m. on 8 October, killing more than 30 people
Sixty-two Swiss evangelical organisations have now signed a charter against “transgressive behaviour”, the Swiss Evangelical Network (RES) reported after its second accountability conference, held on 11 September and attended
A Japanese federation of four church bodies was welcomed as a new member at IFFEC Worldwide 2026 in Kenya.
Destiny Church in Twinsburg, Ohio, gathers for worship on the indoor soccer field of a sports complex called The Edge, with rows of folding chairs and a sound system carried
Reiner Bohlander has taken office as director and general secretary of the Swiss Bible Society (SBS), working from the organisation's new premises in Biel/Bienne. He succeeds Winfried
The Estonian Free Church Union (EKB Liit) will hold its annual Workers' Days on 13-14 November at the Nõmme Baptist Church prayer house in Tallinn, under the theme
What does a congregation do when its premises no longer fit? Suomen Viikkolehti put the question to four Finnish Free Church congregations and found four different answers. Seinäjoki has built
The International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches (IFFEC) has named a new leadership pair. Thomas Schech, 53, who chairs the board of the German Alliance Mission (Allianz-Mission), was elected
The Church of the Brethren in the Czech Republic, known in Czech as Církev bratrská, is preparing its annual pastoral conference for ministers and their spouses. This year's
A roundup published by the Evangelical Covenant Church in the United States has gathered four youth-ministry stories from across the denomination. The most striking comes from Newport Covenant Church
Sweden's Equmeniakyrkan has reported a fall of more than half in the number of people it can count toward state funding, after new rules began requiring each participant
Christianity has always been a faith in translation. Its Scriptures were given in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and its spread across the world has meant constant movement from one language
A pastor in California has built an artificial-intelligence version of himself. Justin Lester assembled a digital twin from nearly two million words of his sermons, books and other messages,