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Southern Europe
Spanish Supreme Court: Catholic brotherhood may exclude women
The Spanish Supreme Court endorsed excluding women from a Catholic brotherhood in Tenerife in the Canary Islands after women protested it. “Would the same thing have been ruled if black people were excluded?” In two earlier court cases, the Santa Cruz de Tenerife court and then the higher Tenerife court…
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Central Europe
Austrian pastor leaves church because of celibacy
An Austrian pastor resigned because of his love for a woman, restarting a debate on celibacy in the Catholic Church. “I do not want to lead a double life.” No marriage and no children. Celibacy has been in force in the Roman Catholic Church for over 900 years. However, the…
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Central Europe
Paul Schneider's son “very touched” by naming German merger congregation
The Protestant “Paul Schneider Congregation” opened on Thursday in Staudernheim, Germany. This happened in the presence of the only living son of the “preacher of Buchenwald”, Karl-Adolf Schneider (86). The Paul Schneider congregation was created from a merger, effective since January 1st, of the Protestant congregations of Bad Sobernheim and…
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Central Europe
Council of Europe: Hungary must stop curbing LGBT rights
The Hungarian government “must stop instrumentalising and weakening the human rights of LGBT people”, Dunja Mijatovic, human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe, said on Thursday. In her statement, reported in Hungary today, Mijatovic called it “deeply regrettable” that the Hungarian government is planning to hold a referendum on…
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Eastern Europe
American Joseph Gleason moved to Russia: “America is a country without a future”
As Christian values have come under increased pressure in the West, some leave for places with more respect for traditional ways of living. Joseph Gleason is one of them: he left America for Rostov Veliki, in Russia’s idyllic countryside.Once, Joseph Gleason was a fervent Calvinist, a pastor in a small…
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Northern Europe
Worship in Norwegian schools threatened with ban
The new government in Norway wants a total ban on preaching in schools. A bill to this end threatens to revive an old debate about school worship services. Religion in Norwegian public schools is a very sensitive issue, can be read in a 2016 article on the website Religion Going…
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Central Europe
Growing up with a father and a mother is best, says majority of Germans
A majority of 66 per cent of Germans believe that it is best for raising children if children grow up with their father and mother. That is the result of a representative survey by the Erfurt-based opinion research institute “INSA Consultante”, on behalf of German Catholic paper Die Tagespost. The…
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Northern Europe
Swede steals mother's dead body
A 55-year-old Swedish man was fined for stealing his mother’s body. “It is beyond my mind that someone would want to do this.” The man, who lives in southern Sweden, had cared for his mother until her death. After she passed, in the winter of last year, he had difficulty…
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Eastern Europe
Belarusian priest thinks violence is justified
In the present situation in Belarus, true Christian love is not looking passively at what is going on. True love is taking power from people who are committing lawlessness today. That is said by the Roman Catholic priest Father Vyacheslav Barok. He has left his country and is staying nowhere…
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Eastern Europe
Russian Duma creates committee to protect Christian values
The Duma, the Russian parliament, has created a committee to discuss ‘Christian’ problems, ranging from abortion to the schism between the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox Church. Already on December 28th, Russian news agency Interfax and Ria Novosti reported shortly on the creation of a working group to protect Christian values…
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