The Russian Parliament is trying to ban worship services not held in special religious buildings. For Russian Protestants, the consequence could be a latent form of religious persecution, Vitaly Vlasenko said last week from Moscow.

NewsRound Europe is CNE’s news podcast. It has a bulletin with some remarkable news topics from the European continent. And at the end, we have a Question & Answer with a colleague about an article.

NewsRound Europe is the name of CNE’s new podcast. It is a news bulletin with some remarkable news topics from the European continent as seen from the Christian eye.

Violence against Christians is not something that happens only in Africa and Asia. Instead, the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC) signals a worrying trend in Europe as well.

An Evangelical church in the Swiss canton of Geneva appeals to the European Court of Human Rights because it is not allowed to baptise people in the lake of Geneva.

The number of Christian schools in Germany is growing again this autumn, with six new schools being founded.

The court in the Dutch city of Arnhem imposed penalties for selling suicide powders on Thursday. This means that suicide drugs cannot be seen as a legitimate means for "private" euthanasia or assisted suicide.

This year's Piazza Grande Religion Journalism Award contains a special mention for a CNE article by Lennart Nijenhuis.

The Finnish Supreme Court decided on Friday to accept the appeal of the prosecutor against Christian Democratic MP Päivi Räsänen. It is the next step in a long legal battle.

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