Last Wednesday, European churches and other buildings drew attention to their persecuted fellow-Christians. By lighting up red, they want to highlight the “many violations that minorities suffer in particular.”

"I feel more threatened than ever", Michel Friedman says. Living as a Jew in Germany, he experiences everyday encounters as "riskier".

In Austria, educators, parents and experts are calling for the immediate stopping of harmful content in sex education. Too often, the child is approached as a “sexual being”, the protesters say.

The recently introduced euthanasia law in Austria does not go far enough, according to some. They are going to court.

The Austrian coalition government was not able to table a ban on conversion therapy on Wednesday. It had promised to send this bill to parliament, but the Conservatives and Greens in the government still could not agree.

In 2022, the complete number of antisemitic incidents was lower than in the year before. But concerning physical attacks, it was a record year.

The Archdiocese of Vienna has received 600 registrations for marriage preparation seminars this year. More and more couples want to be well-prepared before they enter the marriage boat.

Editors of Austria’s church magazines have decided to write “discrimination-sensitively” concerning gender. However, individual newspapers follow different approaches.

The Bible is an essential resource in times of crisis. Therefore, it can significantly support Ukrainians who experience the horrific consequences of the Russian invasion, the Catholic association Biblia believes. But how do you reach so many people with the Holy Scriptures?

Compared to people with an intact family of origin, adults who grew up in a divorced family keep having fewer resources than others.