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Western Europe
Worldwide resistance against LGBT policies grows
The Dutch cabinet is a prominent proponent of LGBT rights. It raises its voice in meetings of the European Union and the United Nations. At the same time, it experiences more and more resistance from countries that do not want to go along with wokism. The Dutch ministers of Education,…
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Western Europe
France prepares draft law that allows surrogacy via the backdoor
Surrogacy is a red line that should never be crossed, French President Emmanuel Macron once said. Now, his government is preparing a draft that allows France to acknowledge children born from surrogate mothers abroad. The draft wants to establish that “when an agreement relating to procreation or surrogacy has been…
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Northern Europe
Norway will not investigate boys' circumcision
Organisation Save the Children requested the Norwegian government to start an investigation into the legality of boys’ circumcision. The organisation suggests, this violates human rights of boys. However, health minister Ingvild Kjerkol refuses to do so. Save the Children had requested an assessment of the ritual of circumcision because the…
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Central Europe
Retired German judge: State cannot do without religion
The German Constitution contains elements of classical Christianity. People need answers they can never find through logical reasoning alone. Therefore, former constitutional lawyer, Paul Kirchhof from Germany, argues that a state cannot exist without religion. Cultural-historical insights prove that religion is a necessary ingredient for the existence of a nation-state,…
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Northern Europe
Finnish Christian Democrat: Male and female remain important
It is impossible for society to remove altogether the distinction between male and female and not classify people according to their biological sex. That is the opinion of Tomi Kaunismäki, the Christian Democratic Parliamentary election candidate in Finland. In an opinion article on the website of the Christian Democrats, Kaunismäki…
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Central Europe
Hungary promises to help persecuted Christians
Persecuted Christians from around the world can count on Hungary. The Hungarian minister of Foreign Affairs, Péter Szijáró, said so during a conference on sexualised violence in London on Monday. Economic difficulties will not diminish the Hungarian policies that support persecuted Christian communities worldwide, Hirado reports. The Hungarian minister stressed…
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Eastern Europe
Lithuanian Orthodox Church: We are only connected to Moscow on paper
Officially, the Orthodox Church in Lithuania belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate and is thus headed by Patriarch Kirill. Yet, the church stresses that it is “morally, spiritually and financially independent.” Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine started on February 24, Patriarch Kirill has received much criticism about his pro-war position.…
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Western Europe
Dutch university scraps Christian prayer
The Free University in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam, one of the leading universities in the country, is scrapping the Christian invocation at academic ceremonies. The opening and closing words at these gatherings will be changed to a text with a “more inclusive character”. “Our help is in the name…
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Russians kill Ukrainian deacon and his son
Last week, the bodies of Anatoly Prokopchuk, a deacon from the local Evangelical church, and his son, Oleksandr, were found in a forest in the Kherson region. They had been tortured and killed by the Russian occupiers. The two men, aged 52 and 19, disappeared a week earlier. News broke…
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European Union
Polish MEP lashes out at “undemocratic” European Parliament
The Polish MEP Ryszard Legutko, from the governing PiS party, lashed out at the European Parliament in a speech during the 70th-anniversary commemoration of the Parliament. According to him, the Union becomes increasingly undemocratic. The European Parliament is turning its back on millions of people. It is becoming “a machine”…
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