Congregations in southern Sweden gather in Helsingborg this weekend for “Bygga hopp” — Building Hope — a conference organised by Equmeniakyrkan Region Syd around a single question: what can the church actually
Sõbralt Sõbrale — “Friend to Friend” — turns 35 this year, marking three and a half decades of charitable work run by Estonia’s Free Church congregations. The story began in 1991,
Floods and landslides that struck Nepal in late August have left many people without homes or a means of living, and the country’s small Christian community has been hit
A group of young people from the Czech town of Nové Město nad Metují have turned an unlikely product — bottled pigeon-manure fertiliser — into a small international charity, and this
Taisto Valta, a Finnish missionary doctor who later trained as a Free Church pastor and whose medical service carried him from a tuberculosis hospital in western India to Nepal, Iraq,
The Mission Church of Finland (Missionskyrkan i Finland) has announced that it is entering a deliberate new phase of church planting, with its national board judging that three to four
Nearly two-thirds of evangelicals in the United Kingdom agree with the statement, “Everyone sins a little, but most people are good by nature.” The finding comes from the latest
Something has shifted in evangelical reading habits. Where the movement’s strengths once lay in biblical exegesis, preaching, spirituality, missions and evangelism, it is now common to find evangelical theologians,
Ask a younger worship leader how they decide whether a new song belongs in a Sunday service, and the honest answer is often that they are not sure. That is
The Swedish evangelist Lena Bergström has been awarded the environmental prize of God Jord, a Christian organisation, for her work on the climate crisis and for building bridges between the
A thanksgiving and praise celebration at Baptist Village near Tel Aviv on 24 September marked twenty years since Netivah, a youth organisation working among Israeli children and young people, was
The Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada traces its beginnings to 1874, when two Swedish immigrants, Monsby Peterson and Reader Johnson, stepped off a boat in Winnipeg, Manitoba — then a frontier
A member of Switzerland’s French-speaking free churches has turned to slam poetry as a way of saying the world in language that is both accessible and sensitive. Cédric
Sven Lindström, who led the mission work of the Swedish Baptist Union from 1995 to 2002 and served the country’s free-church movement as a pastor, union secretary and
Teachers from Estonia’s theological schools have begun an unusually broad joint project to strengthen the training of pastors and church workers, meeting for two days at Pühajärve in the
A first-ever “vision trip” organised by Covenant World Relief and Development (CWRD), the relief and development arm of the Evangelical Covenant Church in the United States, took a group
For four days in late September, Betlehemskyrkan in Gothenburg turned its church hall into a venue alongside the city’s annual Book Fair, gathering authors, researchers, musicians and members of
The Ecumenical Council of Churches in the Czech Republic will hold a free online webinar on 9 November 2026 asking how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way people look for