Gafcon plan: Theological allies remain silent
en staff
Date posted: 30 Oct 2025
Conservative groupings in the Anglican Communion are remaining seemingly tight-lipped about Gafcon's recently-announced plans for a complete denominational reset.
On 16 October, the Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon), which represents many orthodox and Bible-believing individuals and churches, declared itself the "Global Anglican Communion" - as opposed to the existing Anglican Communion traditionally centred on Canterbury.
‘Blatant injustices’ in Madagascar
en staff
Date posted: 29 Oct 2025
An evangelical leader in Madagascar has spoken out against “blatant injustices and violations of fundamental human rights” which occurred as political turbulence engulfed the African island.
Faly Ravoahangy is President of 3M Preaching Institute, a ministry endeavouring to identify, train and equip the next generation of church leaders. He is also a pastor and elder at Ankadivato Biblical Baptist Church in Antananarivo.
Nigeria: Genocide claim is ‘justified’
Emily Pollok
Date posted: 28 Oct 2025
The persecution of Nigerian Christians is attracting greater attention following recent comments made by American comedian Bill Maher on his talk show Real Time with Bill Maher.
“This issue has not gotten on people’s radar? It’s pretty amazing,” Maher said. “If you don’t know what’s going on in Nigeria, your media sources suck.”
China: Fresh crackdown on Christians
Luke Randall
Date posted: 27 Oct 2025
Over 70 Christians have been arrested as part of a large-scale crackdown on civil liberties in East China, with 20 having also been fined thousands of Chinese Yuan.
Hostility from the Chinese state has been increasing for around three months and has seen hundreds of police officers and about 200 vehicles deployed to find anyone involved in Bible study groups across the region, according to Open Doors.
Franklin Graham groups quit accountability body
Lydia Houghton
Date posted: 24 Oct 2025
Franklin Graham – the son of late American evangelist Billy Graham – has withdrawn his two ministries from an evangelical accountability group which was co-founded by his father.
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) and Samaritan’s Purse have formally resigned from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), ending more than four decades of membership.
Netherlands rejects abortion as human right
Luke Randall
Date posted: 22 Oct 2025
Parliamentarians in the Netherlands have voted to reject a bill which would have made abortion a human right. Instead, they subsequently passed a Christian-backed motion further distancing the nation from the further liberalisation of the issue.
Liberal party Democrats 66 (D66) had initially tabled a bill calling on the state to “enshrine the right to abortion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”, following the lead set by what it described as leading “like-minded countries”.
Ukrainian evangelicals join EEA – after three years
Luke Randall
Date posted: 20 Oct 2025
Evangelicals in Ukraine have been accepted as members of the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) for the first time, following a three-year process. The Ukraine Council of Evangelical Protestant Churches of Ukraine (UCEPC) was formally welcomed into the fold following the EEA’s General Assembly.
The move came following a gradual increase in collaboration between the UCEPC and various European evangelical alliances following its initial involvement in a Hope for Europe event three years ago, according to Evangelical Focus.
The Chosen breaks Guinness World Record
Lydia Houghton
Date posted: 19 Oct 2025
Christian TV series The Chosen – supported by the Come and See Foundation – has broken the Guinness World Record for the most translated season of a streamed show, with over 80 translations of its first season now available worldwide.
The Come and See Foundation is a non-profit organisation that exists to ensure that all seven seasons of The Chosen are produced, translated into 600 languages, made globally accessible and free to all. “Fewer than five per cent of global Chosen viewers pay to watch the show, and that’s because of the people around the world who donate to keep the show free and easy to watch and translated into as many languages as possible,” said the show’s Creator and Director Dallas Jenkins.
'Charlie Kirk, look what you did' - Church attendance surges in US
Emily Pollok
Date posted: 19 Oct 2025
Since the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk on 10 September, people in the United States and further afield are heading back to church in what has been termed “the Charlie Kirk effect.”
In the days immediately following his death, social media was swarming with videos of people sharing the impact that Kirk’s assassination was prompting in their lives; for many, that meant returning to church or attending a service for the first time.
Obtaining Bibles off the back of a plane
Gary Clayton
Date posted: 18 Oct 2025
Because remote Karimui has no roads to connect people to the rest of Papua New Guinea, the only way villagers can obtain Bibles is to get them from the back of an MAF aircraft.
Pastor Kimin Mauwe, the community-appointed agent for Christian aviation charity MAF, began ministry in Karimui 33 years ago. For the past 32 years, he’s served MAF by providing weather reports and preparing passengers and cargo for travel.
Explainer: What's happening with Gafcon & Anglicanism?
en staff
Date posted: 17 Oct 2025
Is it "one of the largest schisms in Western Christianity since Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation" - or rather more complex than that?
Yesterday, Gafcon, the organisation which draws together conservative, Biblical Anglicans from around the globe, announced that it was now "fulfilling our mandate to reform the Anglican Communion".
letter from New Zealand
Athletes turn to Jesus
Charley Ballinger
Date posted: 10 Oct 2025
In the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, Eric Liddell’s character speaks these famous words: “God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure”.
And, whilst Liddell didn’t actually say them in real life, they encapsulate something beautiful about how we can give God glory through our sporting abilities.
Malaysia: Friday prayers crackdown
Emily Pollok
Date posted: 9 Oct 2025
Men in the state of Terengganu who fail to attend Friday prayers without a valid reason could be jailed for up to two years, according to new laws announced by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS).
Under Sharia law, imposed by the governing PAS, non-attendance now threatens fines of 3,000 ringgit (£527), imprisonment, or both, as opposed to the prior penalties which were limited to 1,000 ringgit (£176) or a six-month jail sentence.
World Evangelical Alliance whistleblower report
Luke Randall
Date posted: 8 Oct 2025
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has published recommendations on how it can improve its leadership practices following an internal review into whistleblower allegations reported by the Christian Council of Korea (CCK).
As reported by en in June, an anonymous whistleblower raised concerns regarding moral character, accountability and governance in the WEA’s leadership. The organisation said in a recent statement that while they remained “cautious about acting on anonymous and unverifiable sources”, they determined that an internal review into the allegations was the best course of action “in the interest of transparency, accountability and self-examination”.
Satan & demons ‘using Hollywood’
James Patterson
Date posted: 7 Oct 2025
Bestselling author of The Case for Christ, Lee Strobel, has argued that Satan and demons are using Hollywood to promote immoral and corrupting values.
In an interview with political commentator Tucker Carlson, Strobel cited the sitcom Friends as just one example of this corruption. He said that it promotes “a very ugly sexual ethic that normalises multiple sexual partners”, and that it can open this up to people without them realising.
Evangelical good news in Spain
Luke Randall
Date posted: 5 Oct 2025
Evangelical venues account for more than half of Spain’s non-Catholic worship places, ahead of 16 other minority religious groups, and more than double that of Islam, which was its closest challenger.
New data has revealed that of the 8,140 non-Catholic worship places, 4,572 are evangelical, with particularly strong representation present in Catalonia, Madrid and Andalusia, according to Evangelical Focus.
Biblical synagogue breakthrough claim
James Patterson
Date posted: 4 Oct 2025
Archaeologists in northern Israel believe they may have uncovered the remains of a first-century synagogue, a Biblical find labelled as possibly the most significant for decades.
The remains were found in Chorazin (or Korazin, among other possible spellings), an ancient settlement associated with the New Testament.
Gaza: New call for peace
Luke Randall
Date posted: 4 Oct 2025
The war between Israel and Hamas must end and the oft-discussed “two-state solution” is “achievable” in the long term if built upon the rule of law, according to a Palestinian Christian journalist.
This month marks two years since the latest conflict between the two factions began and many have little hope that a resolution can be found. However, in an exclusive interview with en, award-winning Palestinian Christian journalist and writer Daoud Kuttab revealed that he believes there are ways to ensure Israelis and Palestinians can live alongside each other peacefully in the future.
