It is both a blessing and a curse to be an American in Amsterdam tonight. On the one hand, it is a blessed escape. On the other hand, people look at you with worry and pity. On the one hand,…
Project 2025 spreading around the world
The Trump administration is helping spread Project 2025 around the world in an attempt to replace human rights with Christian nationalism, according to a new report by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Project 2025 is the anti-democratic and…
Liberty University expands into Europe in response to growing secularism
Liberty University, a large, private, non-profit evangelical Christian university located in Lynchburg, Virginia, is now offering 600 online degrees to students in Europe and actively exploring the possibility of establishing a physical campus in the future.
Over 2,000 anti-Christian hate crimes reported across Europe in 2024
There has been a “worrying” number of attacks on Christians across Europe in the past year amid a growing climate of intolerance, a new report has warned.
Europe’s Christian Pacifists Reconsider Peace by Arms
Over the last ten centuries, Nikolaikirche—a Protestant church in Eisenach, Germany—has witnessed its share of war and civil strife, dictators and destruction. But this year, in the encroaching darkness of early autumn, its Romanesque stone arches are bathed in candlelight,…
How US Christian nationalists are exporting their agenda to Europe
A report on the state of reproductive rights presented to journalists, policy wonks and activists in Brussels on June 26 begins with a quote from the 15th-century general and military theorist Raimondo Montecuccoli: “To wage war, you need first of all…
European Evangelism Congress Preaches Hope Despite Rising Secular Tide
When evangelist Billy Graham came to West Germany in 1954, more than 80,000 people packed into Berlin’s Olympic Stadium to hear the American preacher’s message. It’s hard to imagine that big of a crowd gathering in Germany to hear a sermon these…
On 80th anniversary of VE Day, Europeans have concerns about the future
Time stood still in the UK May 8 as residents of “this scepter’d isle” paused on the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day to remember the shared sacrifice of those who fought and died, those who survived wounded in…
The U.S.-European alliance is dead
For a bunch of America First isolationists, Donald Trump and his merry band of busybodies sure seem to enjoy interfering in the independence and sovereignty of other countries. Not in Ukraine, mind you. The ally who needs us most is…
Europe must combat antisemitism as thousands of Jews abandon the continent, top Jewish leader says
Governments across Europe need to immediately take action against a precipitous rise in antisemitism that’s driving thousands of Jews to abandon the continent, the leader of a prominent European Jewish organization said Monday.
Report: Christians in Europe Face Rising Discrimination and Hate Crimes
After taking self-defense lessons and repeatedly calling on the police for protection, two nuns living in France decided the escalating hostility against them for their faith was too much. They moved from the region rather than endure further “beatings, spitting and insults.”
Before you pack up and leave the US, consider this
Here in the UK, members of the Facebook group American Women Living in Scotland help one another navigate issues of immigrant life, like how to wrangle a mammogram out of the NHS if you’re under age 50, which grocers are…