US: Return to in-person church has stalled
While almost all US churches have now reopened, and more are dispensing with pandemic protocols like social distancing, new figures from the Pew Research Center show that the percentage of churchgoers returning to in-person services has stalled since S…
Ukraine Bible Society: “We need more Bibles”
As Ukraine prepared to face the imminent Russian invasion last month, the Ukrainian Bible Society in Kyiv reported it was running out of printing Bibles as so many people were turning to the Word of God in this time of crisis, Church Leaders (CL) reports.
Hundreds of Russian evangelicals call for end to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, “God can stop war”
In what has been described as an extraordinarily courageous step, hundreds of evangelical Christians in Russia have signed an open petition calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop his invasion of Ukraine, Christianity Today (CT) reports.
US: Most Protestant churches are open but attendance has stalled
A new survey from Lifeway Research shows that while almost all Protestant churches have resumed in-person services, most churches say the rate of actual attendance is less than half what it was before the pandemic, the Washington Times reports.
Algeria: Christian man imprisoned for preaching the Gospel
Protestant Christian Mohammed Derrab has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in Algeria, after being arrested for preaching the Gospel and giving out a Bible in front of his church building in January, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Russia Keeps Punishing Evangelicals in Crimea
Since Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014—one of the central points of conflict in the current clash between the two countries—Protestant Christians in the territory have faced greater government penalties for practicing their fai…
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