A movement called Église pour les autres — “Church for Others” — will be launched in French-speaking Switzerland on Saturday 7 November at 2 p.m., at the FREE evangelical church
One', the inter-church gathering that replaced the annual assembly of French-speaking Switzerland's Free Evangelical Churches (FREE), is marking a decade, and its organisers say the
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
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
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 theological commission of the French-speaking Swiss Free Evangelical churches publishes a regular series of round-table discussions on questions of the day, and its recent editions range across
A village in western Switzerland is preparing to mark 31 October with pumpkin soup, lanterns and a Bible story rather than ghosts and trick-or-treating. Rachel Muhlethaler, a member
A free evangelical congregation on the shores of Lake Geneva is taking its worship out of the church building and into one of the most unlikely venues in Switzerland: the
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
Mission leaders from seven European national churches met in Liestal and Basel, Switzerland, for the annual gathering of ECOM, the European Methodist mission commission, to reconsider how mission partnerships work
Swiss free churches are being invited to devote one of two Sundays in November to the reality of persecuted Christians, in an annual initiative that this year turns particular attention
About fifty people spent three days in September at the Evangelical Church of the Amandiers in Lavigny, in the Swiss canton of Vaud, exploring a question that churches rarely address
The Swiss Federal Fast (Jeûne fédéral) has prompted two markedly different readings of the day's meaning in the canton of Vaud. On one side, Vaudois Christians close to
The French-speaking free churches of Switzerland have named David Richir as the new adult-formation coordinator of FREE College, the training programme of the Fédération Romande d'Églises
The student Bible groups of French-speaking Switzerland’s free evangelical churches are showing signs of renewal after several secondary-school groups faded during the Covid-19 pandemic. Jean-René
The evangelical Église de la Pélisserie (FREE), in Geneva's sparsely populated old town, has offered free French classes for non-native speakers for the past year, on the
After three years of renovation, hundreds of campers, volunteers, donors and friends of the Bible Reading League gathered from 28 to 30 August to celebrate the reopening of Le Clos
Olivier Fleury and his team are promoting JC2033, an international movement preparing to mark roughly 2,000 years since the resurrection of Jesus Christ around the year 2033. Built on