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 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
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
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&
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
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
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,
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
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
In Jyvaskyla — a city where roughly one in three residents is a higher education student — a free church student worker is calling congregations to recognise university campuses as one of
Two hundred years before Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto, something remarkable happened in London. In 1846, church leaders from Protestant churches across Europe and North America gathered — crossing denominational
The more humanity discovers about the universe, the clearer it becomes how little we understand — and that is cause for wonder rather than doubt, writes Maria Küchen in a reflection
Lisa Fredlund, a leadership developer with the Evangelical Free Church in Sweden (Evangeliska Frikyrkan) and pastor at Mötesplatsen Örebro, has called on churches to resist the accelerating pace of modern
Twenty young people and a handful of leaders from Skåne and Blekinge in southern Sweden spent a week at Olsängsgården camp in Blekinge, concluding the regional KonfaS confirmation programme and
Dick Simonsson, the newly elected chair of Equmeniakyrkan's church board, has called on Sweden's largest free church denomination to regain its self-confidence and turn outward
Tilda Jönsson and Frida Wallberg have become the first two students to graduate from Equmeniakyrkan's newly established missionary training programme at the Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm (EHS), marking a
Hundreds of students across Finland are establishing "Jeesus-välkkä" (Jesus break) clubs in their schools, a grassroots movement sparked by The Send Finland event held in Helsinki in
The Finnish Free Church's (Suomen Vapaakirkko) annual summer festival drew more than 6,000 visitors to the Teopolis campus in Tampere from 2–7 June 2026, marking the