Before Christmas, Chancellor Merkel seemed to criticise the European nations for not being sufficiently Christian in their response to the human tragedy. To what extent did that strike a chord among German evangelicals?
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The longer I work with refugees, the more I am convinced that Christ is more important than any ingenuity that we have created in humanity. I have seen that Christ can heal what humans cannot.
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As a network of national Evangelical Alliances, the European Evangelical Alliance is attempting to resource and support Christians across the continent who are dealing with the migrant situation.
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2083: A European Declaration of Independence is not a widely read nor a well-known text. It was distributed electronically on the 22nd July 2011, the same day that a 36 year old Norwegian murdered 77 people
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Since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, as the hope of future prosperity has dissipated, so has confidence in the European project, and almost inevitably, nationalism has returned to Europe.
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In the European context, we are living in cultures with an identity crisis. Many of us have yet to work out how to be faithful to our calling within that situation
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The following press release was produced as part of the EEA General Assembly in Germany. It reflects the response of the Evangelical Community to the influx of migrants in recent months, warning against the dangers of prejudice and nationalism.
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One of the marks of the Reformation was the impulse to translate the Bible into the vernacular languages of Europe, so that the ploughboy could sing its words as he followed the plough.
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This brief article traces the lives of Lorenzo Lucena and George Borrow who, though little known, made significant contributions to the translation and distribution of the Spanish Bible during the 19th Century,
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The ill-fated attempt at an evangelical-Orthodox partnership in the 1992 Mission Volga remains a painful memory for enthusiasts on both sides
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it is clear that human trafficking in the EU in vast and expanding. The OSCE estimates that there are three million trafficked persons in the OSCE territory at any given time, and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) believes that there are currently around 880,000 people being exploited for their labour in Europe.
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Written in 1994, the following statement from Kevin Giles appeared in Evangelical Quarterly, ‘No Christian theologian living today would support slavery. The slave has three defining characteristics: his/her person is the property of another human being
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What are the facts about human trafficking in Europe? This is a tremendously difficult question to answer for a number of reasons.
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Short memories breed short-sightedness. For my generation who witnessed first hand the momentous events of 25 years ago, it is imperative to tell the stories to a generation of Europeans too young to remember, and to reflect on their enduring significance.
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My first visit ‘behind the Iron Curtain’ was in 1970 with the Netherlands-Soviet Youth Friendship Society, a communist front group. I had just joined a small band of Bible Smugglers led by a daring young Dutchman called Brother Andrew
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During the early 80s, as I became more aware of world and regional politics, European politics was dominated by that apparently impregnable wall separating East from West and of the vast empire of the USSR whose ranks were massed behind it.
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In the exciting days after the break-up of the Soviet Union, churches grew and revival seemed to be on its way. Nikolai Ivanov from The Bulgarian Bible League remembers his church in Sophia growing from 200 members to 5000 in less than three years.
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These are two important works written in the years following the fall of the Berlin wall. Both of them emphasise the vital influence of the “soft powers” and the thousands of ordinary Christians whose lives made a real difference. Both are available second-hand at very low cost.
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