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Central Europe
Muslim women Austria can keep teaching with a headscarf
For the Women’s and Integration Minister Susanne Raab, a headscarf ban for female teachers is “no longer an issue.”, after the Constitutional Court called this ban illegal. She said so in an interview with Austrian magazine Profil. According to the Christian-democratic Raab, the idea will be dropped because the Constitutional…
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Western Europe
Half a million Dutch sign petition against Covid certificate
A petition against Covid certificates in the Netherlands received 500,000 signatures within three days. The people behind the initiative think the proof of vaccination is out of proportion given the current situation of the pandemic. The face of the campaign is former underminister Mona Keijzer, a Christian Democrat. According to…
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Northern Europe
Swedish government tries to ban religious schools
The Swedish Government is working on an establishment halt for denominational schools. According to the minister of Education, Religious influence does not belong in schools. She, therefore, wants a total ban. Lina Axelsson Kihlblom, the social democratic minister of Education, said so during a presentation of three measures to rectify…
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Eastern Europe
Ukrainian has more interest in Bible because of conflict
Tensions increase at the Russian-Ukrainian border; so does the need for Bibles among Ukrainians, says Anatoliy Raychentets, Assistant Secretary-General of the Ukrainian Bible Society. Both the pandemic and the conflict with Russia have led to more Ukrainians seeking faith and the Word of God, says Raychentets to Norge Kristelig Pressekontor…
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Central Europe
Shortage of Polish babies cause for concern
Much more people who died, fewer children who were born, more marriages, but also more divorces. This is how you can summarise the demographic situation in Poland. In the last ten years, the number of people living in Poland decreased by over 300,000. This was reported by the Polish Statistical…
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Western Europe
Jewish policeman can wear a kippah in Arnhem
In the Dutch town of Arnhem, community service officers are now allowed to wear a headscarf, kippah or turban with their uniform. With this policy, the city council is diametrically opposed to the national government. It was only last December when a majority of the House of Representatives in The…
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Western Europe
In France, every ten days a church is planted
Every ten days, a new evangelical church is planted in France. Such church growth does not exist in any other European country. This says Daniel Liechti, who is president of the Church Planting Commission of the National Council of Evangelical Churches in France (CNEF). The magazine ‘Move' from the free…
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Central Europe
Warning against “new German schism” in Catholic Church
On the same day as the opening of the so-called Synodal Path, a new initiative in the Roman Catholic Church in Germany warns of a schism in the church. In a letter to the bishops worldwide, the organisers of “New Beginning” (Neuer Anfang) describe a “spirit of rebellion and betrayal…
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Western Europe
Anne Frank researchers shocked by criticism
The cold case team that did the criminal investigation after Anne Frank's betrayal says it was shocked by all the criticism of their book. It sees a witch hunt against their new book. This is what chief investigator Pieter van Twisk says in a lengthy statement on the website of…
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Eastern Europe
Ukrainians seek comfort in church
As tensions between Ukraine and Russia rise, Ukrainian Christians are strengthened in their faith. “People are open to Jesus like never before.” About 40 kilometres from the Russian border, in the Kharkiv region, pastor Anton Tishenko and his church – the New Generation Church – are having 21- day period…
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