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Northern Europe
Christian Democrats Norway debate yes and no to abortion
The leader of the Norwegian Christian Democratic youth party (KrFU) is pleading to give up the resistance against the present abortion law and agree with the status quo. But that idea meets with great contradiction. The youth party leader Hadle Bjuland proposed early September to accept free abortion until the…
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Western Europe
Half of Dutch Christians never open the Bible
While more than one in five Dutch people reads the Bible, almost half of the Dutch Christians rarely or never open the most read Book in the world. That is shown by a survey of the Nederlands-Vlaams Bijbelgenootschap (Dutch Bible Society, NBG) about which the Dutch daily Reformatorisch Dagblad reports.…
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Central Europe
Germans find access to abortion “too easy”
One in five Germans find that women can get an abortion too easily in the country. That was shown by a survey. On Saturday, pro-lifers have their March for Life in the capital Berlin. In total, 19 per cent (of the 2,039 respondents) think that abortion should not be as…
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Eastern Europe
Record number of marriage in Ukraine
In the first half of 2022, a record number of people married in Ukraine. In total, 103,903 couples sealed their union with marriage. That is 21 per cent more than in the same period in 2021. Remarkable is that most marriages were sealed in front regions. That is reported by…
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Western Europe
Dutch Justice Minister: Freedom of religion and wokism hinder freedom of speech
The Dutch Minister of Justice Minister Dilan Yesilgöz says that “wokism” and “extremism” should not be tolerated. These things endanger the democratic rule of law, she argued during an annual lecture of the magazine Elsevier Weekly. The Netherlands is too scared to limit the freedom of religion for the benefit…
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Western Europe
French ethics committee passes euthanasia proposal
The National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE) thinks it is possible to allow self-determined dying ethically. On Tuesday, it ruled that there is “an ethical application of active assistance in dying” under strict conditions. The ruling means that the French government can go ahead with the drafting of new legislation concerning…
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Central Europe
Church tower in German Suurhusen no longer most leaning steeple
Not many years ago, the church tower of the German town of Suurhusen went into the books as the most leaning tower in the world. It even beat the well-known tower of Pisa. However, it now has to pass its title to the Leaning Tower of Gau-Weinheim in the German…
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Northern Europe
Danes: Keep abortion limit as it is
The abortion limit should remain at 12 weeks. That is the opinion of most Danes. Despite the debate in political spheres about whether the Danish abortion law should be more liberal, two-thirds of Danes seem satisfied with how it is. Currently, Danish women can choose to terminate their pregnancy up…
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Western Europe
The language war on gender has come to the French workplace
As more French employers have gender-neutral terms enshrined into their policies, a small, yet vocal minority of young employees, are rebelling. Some see the new changes as a time to leave their job or end the interview. A 31-year-old startup director who goes by “Thomas” said that he was contacted…
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Southern Europe
Spain tries to enforce transgender law earlier than planned
The Spanish government decided to bring the deadlines for the new transgender law forward. Critics say that critical in-depth debate on the issue is thus avoided. Only two parties – the Christian-democratic party PP and Vox, a right-wing party – objected when the government voted about putting more pressure on…
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