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Eastern Europe
Ukrainian is more believing than 20 years ago, survey says
Two-thirds of Ukrainians call themselves believers. In the past 20 years, religiosity has grown by just under 10 per cent. The country experienced a 'religious peak' in 2014. In 2000, 57.8 per cent of the Ukrainians called themselves believers versus 66 to 68 per cent now, according to a comprehensive…
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Western Europe
Another Dutch gynaecologist fathered children unlawfully; fourth case in recent years
A former gynaecologist from the former Carolus Hospital in the Dutch city of Den Bosch used his sperm for artificial insemination without informing parents, reports the current Jeroen Bosch Hospital (JBH). It is the fourth case in recent years that came to the light recently. The case became public after…
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Eastern Europe
Reformed intellectual on hunger strike in Belarussian prison
The Reformed intellectual Vladimir Matskevich has been in a Belarussian prison for over six months. Now, he has started a hunger strike. Concerned Christians demand action. The group of the Coordinating Council “Christian Vision” is concerned about the condition of political prisoner, philosopher and methodologist Matskevich. In their statement, the…
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European Union
No “fundamental right” to abortion, EU Bishops say to Macron
European bishops do not want the “right to abortion” to be included in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. They reject the French President’s proposal last month to do so. In a statement released in Brussels on Tuesday, the Presidency of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European…
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Northern Europe
EU makes free speech equal to terrorism, Räsänen says
The Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen warns of the negative influence of the European Union in member states in connection with the freedom of expression. She said this in the Finnish parliament on Tuesday in a reaction to a proposal from the European Commission, which wants to extend the list of…
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Eastern Europe
Catholic Church in Ukraine is making war-time preparations
The Catholic Church in Western Ukraine is creating its own plan of counteraction in a full-scale invasion by Russian troops. That said the Supreme Archbishop of these churches, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, during a press conference. The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) is related to the Roman Catholic Church and accepts the authority…
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European Union
EU member states do not agree about rainbow families
The European Union member states do not have the same definitions of family and marriage, and that will not change. There is no support for a plan to recognise all families and forms of parenthood that are identified in other member states. The news platform Euractiv reports that the European…
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Northern Europe
Swedish church fights against pornography
Swedish churches join forces to fight against the porn industry. Research shows that 96 per cent of all sixteen-year-old boys in Sweden watch pornography. And both boys and girls become tangled up in porn addiction. The problems are too big for one church to solve, says Johanna Lindhult from Salvation…
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Central Europe
CDU chairman wants to keep Christian reference in party name
The new chairman of the German party CDU, Friedrich Merz, wants to keep the C (for Christian) in the name of his political party. The new chairman of the German party CDU, Friedrich Merz, wants to keep the C (for Christian) in the name of his political party. Earlier, research…
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Central Europe
German politician pleas for abolishment of church taxes
To make the church more attractive, churches in Germany should withdraw from state funding and abolish church taxes. This is what Lucia Puttrich, a deputy chairwoman of the Christian-democratic CDU in Hesse, thinks. She suggests putting an end to church taxes. This could be a way to “counteract the alienation…
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