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Opinion
Retrospect 2025: Christians cannot do without good reporters
At the end of 2025, we look back at what this year has brought us. Of course, we know from experience what it has brought to our personal lives. But when it comes to the world, we need media to get the information to us. It really does matter what media we use. Let's have a…
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Opinion
OSCE publishes rare guide to protecting Christians
Europe extends as far as we can see church spires. That is, in short, the vision of the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on Europe’s borders. In other words, Europe is Christian, and you can easily see where it ends. Based on Kohl's simple logic, it is understandable that the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in…
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European Union
Make America humble again (and Europe too), in CNE's last podcast of 2025
America may talk about being “great again”, but perhaps it is time to bow the knee. And Europe should join in. In the final CNE podcast of 2025, host Evert van Vlastuin brings together Jeff Fountain (Schuman Centre of European Studies, based in the Netherlands) and Kevin Swanson (pastor and…
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Central Europe
Organising a brothel was easier than a Tupperware party, Frank Heinrich says in CNE podcast
Before Germany introduced its new prostitution law, regulations on brothels were shockingly loose. Even a Tupperware party was scrutinised more critically than the sex industry. That says former MP Frank Heinrich, presently leader of the German organisation “Gemeinsam gegen Menschenhandel” (Together against human trafficking). In the new CNE podcast, he…
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European Union
CNE podcast: How John MacArthur's voice continues to echo across Europe
Few American preachers have had as strong an impact in Europe as Dr. John MacArthur. The organisation Grace to You Europe aims to provide a follow-up on a spiritually unstable continent. Many pastors in Europe became aware that God was calling them to the ministry after reading or listening MacArthur.…
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European Union
What if prayer gets controversial? Anja Tang-Hoffmann tells in the CNE podcast
Every day, Anja Tang-Hoffmann and her colleagues search newspapers from all corners of Europe to look for incidents of intolerance against Christians. And sometimes, the breaches of religious freedom come even from the governments. Anja Tang tells all about that in the CNE podcast. At the office of OIDAC (Observatory…
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European Union
Make an end to “religious illiteracy”, says OIDAC in new discrimination report
Governments should encourage religious literacy among civil servants and the media. This can prevent Christians from facing negative stereotypes and stigma. > Stay up to date with Christian news in Europe? Sign up for CNE's newsletter. This is one of the recommendations from the OIDAC Europe Annual Report 2025. OIDAC…
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European Union
When secularism turns controlling in Norway: Jehovah's faith on trial in CNE's podcast
What happens when one of the world’s most secular countries starts deciding how believers should live? Norway is so secular that it risks going too deeply into private matters. In this way, especially religious families can suffer from state interventions. That is the concern from the Norwegian lawyer Anders Ryssdal.…
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Northern Europe
In the final stage, prosecutor in Räsänen case focuses on a 21-year-old pamphlet
On Thursday, in the case against Päivi Räsänen, the Finnish prosecutor chose not to dwell too much on the infamous 2019 tweet, but rather on the 2004 brochure about men and women. > Stay up to date with Christian news in Europe? Sign up for CNE's newsletter. That brochure (or…
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Western Europe
Christian Democrats win strongly in Holland
The Dutch Christian Democratic CDA has won fourteen seats in the general elections on Wednesday. > Stay up to date with Christian news in Europe? Sign up for CNE's newsletter. The party lost massively in the 2023 elections, from fifteen to five seats. In the exit poll after the vote,…
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