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Northern Europe
Norwegian Klepp sticks to decision: No support for conservative Christian organisations
The municipal council of the Norwegian town of Klepp stands by its decision to prevent organisations with a traditional view on relationships and sexuality from applying for cultural support. The case is now being forwarded to the highest representative in the province. With 20 against 11 votes, the municipal council…
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Eastern Europe
Belarusian project for family reading of the Gospel of Matthew
The Synodal Missionary Department of the Belarusian Orthodox Church and the Pokrov Charitable Foundation for Family Support organised an initiative called “Reading the Gospel of Matthew Together. Continuity of Generations.” The goal of the project was to create a video in which families read the whole Gospel of Matthew out…
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Central Europe
German day care centre in clinch with lesbian couple
A German day care centre in Apen, Lower Saxony, has been under attack. A lesbian couple feels hurt by the fact that the couple that runs the facility is “convinced that it is God’s plan that husbands and wives should form a marriage community.” Idea reports that the lesbian couple…
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Eastern Europe
Ukrainian documentary shows Soviet repression of Protestants
At the end of this year, a documentary will be available about the repression of Christians in the Soviet Union. Last month, Pravda Pro production Studio has begun the production of the historical documentary. In January, Pravda Pro recorded the first scenes, Religion in Ukraine, reports on the basis of…
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Eastern Europe
Worries about plans for destruction Christian heritage in Armenia
Azerbaijan recently announced that “Armenian forgeries” will be removed from churches in Nagorno-Karabakh. The message has raised alarm bells in Armenia. Azerbaijan considers destroying the Christian heritage in the region in the long term, Kathpress reports. Churches urgently request the West to take action. During a conflict with Azerbaijan last…
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Eastern Europe
Inscriptions “Freedom to Matskevich” appear in Minsk
The fate of the Belarusian prisoner Vladimir Matskevich does not go unnoticed. Last Sunday, graffiti in support of the Reformed intellectual appeared in Minsk. Matskevich is currently on a hunger strike. Support for Matskevich also came from Western Europe. On Monday, Belarusians from Sweden gathered in the centre of Stockholm…
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Western Europe
Dutch politicians want to forbid conversion therapy
The Dutch political parties D66 and VVD have put forward a bill to forbid conversion therapy for homosexual people. If the bill is accepted, anyone who offers treatments meant to change sexual orientation or gender identity will be punishable with fines up to 22.500 euros or prison sentences of a…
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Eastern Europe
Russian Orthodox Church calls plan for suspension of autonomy “absurd”
A proposal to temporarily strip the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) of its “autocephaly” (autonomy) is absurd, the ROC has stated. The proposal was made by a metropolitan of the Greek Orthodox Church because the ROC recently established an exarchate in Africa. Early February, Metropolitan Gregory of Peristeria during a broadcast…
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Northern Europe
Christian teacher fired for refusing to say 'hen'
A Swedish teacher has been accused of discrimination after refusing to address a non-binary student with the gender-neutral pronoun ‘hen’. The Discrimination Ombudsman ruled that the teacher is guilty of a “serious form of harassment, by deliberately refraining from using the pronoun with which the student identifies”, Dagen reports. In…
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Western Europe
Psalm 121 most popular psalm in the Netherlands, survey says
In the flat country the Netherlands, Psalm 121 (“I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?”) is the most popular psalm in the Bible. However, Psalm 42, about the panting deer, is the most popular for singing. This is evident from a survey conducted…
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