The Sodankylä Free Church in Finnish Lapland has appointed Jaakko Simula as its new pastor, following a vote at an extraordinary congregational meeting held at the end of May. Simula,
Merja (Lea Mirjami) Koski, who served as a Finnish Free Church missionary in Spain for more than three decades, died on 12 May 2026 at the age of 92. Her
The Evangelical Free Church of Sweden (Evangeliska Frikyrkan, EFK) has appointed Linnea Åberg as its new mission director, marking a leadership transition for the denomination's global mission strategy.
North Park Theological Seminary, the seminary of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) in Chicago, has received an $8 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to launch One Covenant Community, a
The Council of Církev bratrská (CB) — the Church of the Brethren in the Czech Republic — held two meetings in June 2026, addressing a wide-ranging agenda that included energy infrastructure
When Cornelia Forsberg realized that God's love did not need to be earned, everything changed. She resigned from her church staff position without knowing what her next step
Sweden's free churches have been shrinking for decades, and the newly released Frikyrkoundersökningen 2026 (Free Church Survey 2026) confirms that the trend continues — with one previously bright spot
Erika Niemelä has been appointed chief executive officer of Aikamedia and Päivä, two of Finland's leading Christian publishing houses, effective 1 July 2026. A Master of Economic Sciences,
The Board of Directors of the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) has unanimously nominated Rev. Carlton P. Harris to serve as the next president of the denomination, following a
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&
In 1976, the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) made the decision to ordain women to pastoral ministry. Fifty years on, the denomination is celebrating that milestone — not merely as an institutional
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