Roughly 1,300 adults and children gathered in Örebro for Equmeniakyrkan’s first-ever Vision Conference, a denominational gathering that placed small-group conversation rather than lecture-style programming at
A Swedish missionary and pastor who has spent his life moving between Sweden and Ecuador has issued a sharp warning to churches in the global North: rising nationalism within Christianity
A church leader argues that closing a congregation and planting a new one should not be seen as opposites in the life of the Equmeniakyrkan (Uniting Church of Sweden). Rather,
The Bund Freier Evangelischer Gemeinden drew more than three thousand young people to Erfurt for BUJU 2026, its flagship youth gathering under the theme 'Love Collides'.
Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark each have substantial free evangelical movements — rooted in nineteenth-century revival, shaped by the pietist and holiness streams, and active in global mission far beyond their size.
The Vereinigung Evangelischer Freikirchen, Germany's association of evangelical free churches, celebrated its centennial on 29 April 2026.
Young leaders from the IFFEC family gathered in Paris in October 2025 for the Global Youth Gathering, under a call to the next generation to lead through their lives.
Germany is home to one of the most established free evangelical movements in the world — the FeG, with over 500 congregations, a national university, and a century of witness outside the state-church system.
Germany's free evangelical federation held its 2025 federal assembly in September, addressing both growth in church planting and the serious matter of establishing accountability for historic cases of abuse.
Finland's Evangelical Free Church entered a new season in late 2024 as Tommi Koivunen succeeded the retiring Hannu Vuorinen, bringing decades of youth ministry experience to the national leadership role.
Key European church planting leaders met in Budapest in March 2026 for an IFFEC-facilitated gathering to pray, plan, and strengthen trans-national cooperation.
Moscow Theological Seminary was founded in 1993 on a Western residential model — and promptly struggled with empty dormitories and insufficient enrolment. In 2007 it reintegrated its Soviet-era correspondence programme