In Florian Dou’s shopping cart there was a packet of sausages and not much else. He had spent all his salary ten days before the end of the month. To survive when the…

Bulgaria Revises Proposed Restrictions on Churches Update: After considering laws to halt training, foreign funding, and missionary outreach, the European nation eases its approach. Following an outcry from evangelicals and other faith groups,…

Ukraine will not allow Russian men aged 16-60 into the country following the imposition of martial law, Kiev says. An exception would be made for "humanitarian cases" such as those travelling to funerals.…

Your Peace Returns to You      Our last prayer topic was praying about finding a house were your peace would remain. In that house was a person of peace who would be key in…

Islam, Christianity, and Free Speech We think of Europe as secular, progressive, and confidently post-religious. But try criticizing Islam. Should governments be in the business of protecting people’s feelings? Most Americans, I think…

Nikola Gruevski, former prime minister of Macedonia, has reportedly been granted asylum by the Hungary, after fleeing his home country in what seems to be an attempt to avoid a two-year prison sentence.…

Last year an investigation revealed that the ruling elite of Azerbaijan operated a €2.5 billion slush fund and international money-laundering scheme, known as the Azerbaijani Laundromat. Three Spanish politicians (Pedro Agramunt, Agustín Conde…

Prime minister Pedro Sánchez says that Spain will reject the draft Brexit deal unless the status of Gibraltar is clarified. Spain claims the peninsula, ceded to the UK by a 1713 treaty, and…

Italy has refused to back down over its expansionary 2019 budget, which EU chiefs claim breaches previous spending agreements. The indebted nation at first unveiled plans for a deficit budget of 2.4% of…

Greetings and blessings from Bulgaria. I’m writing this e-mail with a bit of a sadness since after many of our prayer efforts and political activities, we are heading straight back towards communistic regime…