Johann Matthies has been installed as the political commissioner for the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. He will be the voice of the Christians in the German Parliament and the government. His role is there both "pastoral and prophetic", he says.His roots are in Soviet Kazakhstan, where he was born in a family of what's called Russian-Germans. As a missionary, he spent many years in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He also has fluent Russian. By having this, he could speak with Vladimir Putin during a long train journey, in the early nineties. But later on, this became essential for the continuation of his mission work in the Caucasus.As a child from a Mennonite family, he will never get enthusiastic about weapons and armies. But he will never deny Ukraine's right to self-defence. And he keeps his pacifist conviction as a private one.
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Easing abortion as modern barbarism
The United Kingdom parliament decided to decriminalise abortion. The practical effect of this is that abortion will be possible up to birth instead only 24 weeks.According to pro-life activist Ana del Pino, this is infanticide and barbarism, since the baby could survive outside the womb.It will also facilitate sex-selective abortion.
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Changing human nature through European integration
European integration could be seen as a form of conversion therapy. The European Union tries to change human nature in itself by putting an unaccountable bureaucratic layer above the (former) sovereign member states. This might lead to tensions and even to conflict.This says the former US diplomat Todd Huizinga in the CNE podcast.He will work as a CNE columnist and is also a senior fellow for Europe for the Religious Freedom Institute.
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Is there a quiet revival among youngsters in Europe?
Is there a spiritual revival in Europe? Generation Z comes to faith.Andreas Nordli (Youth with a Mission Norway) says that he sees that more people come to faith in the past few years than he has seen in all the years before that together. Secularisation is dead, he concludes.For the traditional church, here are challenges. Also for individual Chrsitians. Nordli advices to listen to young people.
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Christian organisation branded as extremist in Belarus
Organisation Christian Vision branded as extremist by Lukashenko regime in Belarus. What does this mean? Natallia Vasilevich explains.Christian Vision started spontaneously in 2020, around the time of the protests against the fraudulent elections.
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