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Western Europe
Russian Orthodox parish in Amsterdam feels threatened by Moscow
The Russian Orthodox Church in Amsterdam leaves the Moscow Patriarchate. The parish’s move follows a visit from Archbishop Elisey, which they perceived as intimidating. The clergy of the parish reported this in a press release on Saturday. The four priests and a deacon have applied to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of…
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Western Europe
French dating site wants to bring practising Catholics together
A new dating site, Navis Fidelis, launched at the beginning of February, offers the possibility of finding a soul mate only among very practising Catholics. The aim is clear: to achieve marriage. A very traditional conception of love, put forward by modern means, is the idea of the dating site…
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Northern Europe
More than 155,000 Ukrainian refugees receive Bible
Among fleeing Ukrainians, there is a growing demand for Bibles. The Norwegian branch of the Christian organisation Gideons International is preparing to increase the distribution rate to meet the inquiries. “We receive many inquiries to our office about Ukrainian Bibles”, Steiner Hopland, Secretary-General of the Gideons International, says in a…
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Eastern Europe
Baptist World Alliance urges presidents to find peaceful solution to war
The Baptist World Alliance requests an immediate joint meeting of several presidents to find a “just and peaceful” solution to the Russo-Ukrainian war. The Alliance does so in a letter addressed to the Russian president Vladimir Putin, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the French president Emmanuel Macron and the American…
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Eastern Europe
Orthodox brothers leave Kirill in the cold
The Russian Church gets more and more isolated in the Orthodox world. Even seminary students from the Ukrainian Church (Moscow Patriarchate) are cooking for the Ukrainian army fighting against the Russians. Orthodox church leaders around the world condemn Russia's war against Ukraine. In a sermon, the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople,…
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Western Europe
French Christians march for climate
Several Christian associations, under which A Rocha and FPF, join climate marches on Saturday. In total, 126 rallies are planned throughout the country. The so-called Look Up event organisers call the French to mobilise against climate change. The Look Up event also aims to challenge the twelve French presidential campaign…
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Central Europe
Swiss university bans Metropolitan Hilarion for his silence on the war
The University of Fribourg in Switzerland has suspended the influential Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion. According to the university, the prelate did not speak out sufficiently against the war. On Tuesday, Mariano Delgado, the dean of the theology faculty of the University of Fribourg, announced that the position of Metropolitan Hilarion…
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Northern Europe
Sweden: Even attempt to changing homosexuality might be illegal
The government should investigate a ban on the “attempts at conversion” of LGBT people. That is the appeal of the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society Affairs (MUCF). If accepted, the proposal can have significant consequences for churches. Originally, the government asked the MUCF to map so-called conversion therapies.…
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Western Europe
French presidential candidate Zemmour: White Ukrainians welcome; no to Muslims
Right-wing French politician Eric Zemmour sees a difference between refugees of Ukrainian origin and those with an Arab or Muslim background. “Yes to white Christian immigration, no to Arab Muslim immigration.” Zemmour said during an interview with BFMTV that Ukrainians who “have ties to France or family in France” will…
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Central Europe
German Mennonites against sending weapons to Ukraine
The Mennonite Community in Germany is against sending weapons to Ukraine. The pacifist Christians don’t believe that weapons protect against death and destruction. The evangelical press agency Idea reports that the vice-president of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mennonitischer Gemeinden (AMG), Prof. Fernando Enns, thinks that currently, a pacifist position is necessary for…
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