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CNE's Newsround EuropeBeing the Christian voice in political BerlinJohann Matthies has been installed as the political commissioner for the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. He will be the voice of the Christians in the German Parliament and the government. His role is there both "pastoral and prophetic", he says.His roots are in Soviet Kazakhstan, where he was born in a family of what's called Russian-Germans. As a missionary, he spent many years in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He also has fluent Russian. By having this, he could speak with Vladimir Putin during a long train journey, in the early nineties. But later on, this...2025-06-3049 min
CNE's Newsround EuropeEasing abortion as modern barbarismThe United Kingdom parliament decided to decriminalise abortion. The practical effect of this is that abortion will be possible up to birth instead only 24 weeks.According to pro-life activist Ana del Pino, this is infanticide and barbarism, since the baby could survive outside the womb.It will also facilitate sex-selective abortion.
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2025-06-2329 min
CNE's Newsround EuropeChanging human nature through European integrationEuropean integration could be seen as a form of conversion therapy. The European Union tries to change human nature in itself by putting an unaccountable bureaucratic layer above the (former) sovereign member states. This might lead to tensions and even to conflict.This says the former US diplomat Todd Huizinga in the CNE podcast.He will work as a CNE columnist and is also a senior fellow for Europe for the Religious Freedom Institute.
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe2025-06-0936 min
CNE's Newsround EuropeIs there a quiet revival among youngsters in Europe?Is there a spiritual revival in Europe? Generation Z comes to faith.Andreas Nordli (Youth with a Mission Norway) says that he sees that more people come to faith in the past few years than he has seen in all the years before that together. Secularisation is dead, he concludes.For the traditional church, here are challenges. Also for individual Chrsitians. Nordli advices to listen to young people.
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2025-06-0251 min
CNE's Newsround EuropeChristian organisation branded as extremist in BelarusOrganisation Christian Vision branded as extremist by Lukashenko regime in Belarus. What does this mean? Natallia Vasilevich explains.Christian Vision started spontaneously in 2020, around the time of the protests against the fraudulent elections.
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2025-05-2658 min
CNE's Newsround EuropeChallenges for Christians in wartime UkraineWhen Igor Bandura (born 1970) was a young boy, he had moral objections against the godless Soviet Union and did not want to go in the army in 1989. But he had no choice, and so he was there during the coup in Moscow in August 1990.But now, Bandura is no pacifist anymore. And that is the same for most of his Baptist brothers.
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CNE's Newsround EuropeSperm donation and Christian parentingThe donor-conceived Menno Hofman and the Christian ethics professor Henk Jochemsen debate about sperm donation.Hofman himself was conceived from donor sperm, too. And he has "roughly 25" donor children apart from the direct three in his own family.Hofman is a Christian theologian. His ethical motive is in helping other people, especially intended parents who long for a child.Henk Jochemsen is very sceptical about the practice of sperm donation. He thinks it speaks against the Biblical model in which parenthood is a unity, not just a selected act of giving sperm.2025-05-1253 min
CNE's Newsround EuropeBart van den Dikkenberg in CNE’s Podcast: Impossible to believe in evolution and the BibleCan a Christian believe in both God and evolution? According to Bart van den Dikkenberg, the answer is no, as the two beliefs are contradictory to the Christian faith. Van den Dikkenberg, a science and technology editor for the Dutch Reformed newspaper Reformatorisch Dagblad (RD), says that his primary concern today is seeing scientists who are embracing a form of theistic evolution in their professions. Theistic evolution, he explains, is the idea that God created everything through evolutionary processes over billions of years. Yet, the two worldviews within that theory are "competing". About this and mor...2025-05-0533 min
CNE's Newsround EuropeWorldview battle around Christian education in SwedenSweden is a free and democratic country that gives space to Christian education. But Christian schools usually experience that they are in the midst of a worldview battle.The public is sympathetic. The political atmosphere is critical and follows the secularist religion. The school's inspection is visiting the 137 schools regularly. And although the inspection sees that the schools that belong to the Christian Schools Council are doing good academically, the inspection is usually suspicious.About this and more, Jan Rosman (leader of the Christian Schools Council in Sweden) tells in the CNE podcast.
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CNE's Newsround EuropeAbortion in the European Citizen's Initiative and the member statesInterview with Grégor Puppinck (ECLJ, European Centre for Law and Justice) about the European Citizen's Initiative My Voice My Choice about abortion.According to Puppinck, the nature of My Choice My Voice is to make national legislation about abortion ineffective, since the aim of the initiative is to facilitate abortion travelling.
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CNE's Newsround EuropeChristian education in Hebrew in IsraelHow to conduct school classes during a war? Yoel Russu does it, at his Makor HaTikvah school in the Israeli capital Jerusalem.This Christian school is the only Christian school in the world that teaches in the Hebrew language. The school serves Christian families, not only those from Jewish backgrounds. There are even Arabic children attending the school.The war that started on October 7th 2023, changed everything. Still, the school tries to make the best of it.The main challenge at the moment is of practical nature: the building is too s...2025-04-1434 min
CNE's Newsround EuropeDilemmas for Christian education in EuropeChallenges and dilemmas for Christian education in Europe. Interview with Laszlo Demeter, director for ACSI Europe (Association of Christian Schools International). Network of 5,500 schools worldwide.Anxiety among youngsters in combination with media use and family breakdown.Biblical vision on all the school subjects, including Christian mathematics.
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CNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian newsChristine Chiner tells about the challenges for Christian education in Lyon, France.Chrysalide school in Lyon.Educating children in secular city.
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CNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian newsThe German author Gabriele Kuby speaks about the hope that good education can give to escape from the grip of the Sexual Revolution.The hope is partly in classic concepts as discipline and obedience. But more, also in a living relationship with Jesus Christ.She speaks about her bestseller "The Global Sexual Revolution" and the follow-up of that in "The Abandoned Generation".The young generation is depressed and thinks about suicide.
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CNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian newsNo multiple parenthood in the NetherlandsCommissioner Lahbib asks for more women’s rightsFinland no priority to Christian refugeesFinland sees more young men in church
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2025-03-1710 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian newsIkea Poland criticised at court for discriminationAn end to the German self-identification lawWill Pride have a future in Hungary?Parents take action against liberal sexual education at schoolsSpanish government minister pleads for right to abortion in constitution
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2025-03-1007 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian newsNoah’s Ark to stay anchored in the Netherlands EU moves to ban “man” in new language guide Germany's Jewish communities concerned about election results Students refused prayer times at Dutch schools Around 40 percent of Poles do not think that humans evolved from animals
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2025-03-0311 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian newsUkrainian Evangelicals are against the American plansWarning against antisemitism in DenmarkBacklash in legal fight against abortion pills in PolandDutch ban on conversion therapy seems off the tableOpposition in Tuscany appeals against assisted deathThursday church services in Sweden more popular than Sunday
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2025-02-2411 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europ with Christian newsChildren in Denmark usually live with both parents. The traditional nuclear family is still the most common, in spite of divorce and alternative family models.Most people in the Netherlands are against a ban on conversion therapy. They think, it should be possible to help somebody who is not comfortable with their gender or sexual orientation.Official criminal complaint against a Polish museum on the grounds of child pornography. A book about gender and sexuality is sold in the museum's bookshop.Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia follows the example set by Donald...2025-02-1712 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian newsInterview about young people in the Bible. Are there young people in the Bible? Yes, not only adults. Theological research focuses on that.Euthanasia in DenmarkPregnant people in SwedenSuspension for gynaecologist in FranceNon-religious in Switzerland is growingPolish petition against confession for minors
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CNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian news 3 February 2025YouVersion downloads popular in persecuted countriesNon-Orthodox Christians targeted in UkraineMost want age-restrictions for gender reassignment therapy in Norway Confession ban in Poland; UK school counsellor fired for beliefs
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2025-02-0310 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian news 27 January 2025We are more antisemitic than we thought; Pressure on Pakistan to release Christian mother; Natural Family Planning causes a rise in abortion; Poland reduces religious education at schools; An end to only-girls' school in Switzerland; Spain tries to block surrogacy
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CNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian news 20 January 2025Anabaptists celebrate 500 years Church closeures in Sweden Push for unrestricted abortions in Austria Same-sex partnerships in Ukraine Churches burned and clergy killed in Ukraine
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2025-01-2018 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian news 13 January 2025Is abortion “inevitable” in Malta?Praying for coalition talks in AustriaWill Netanyahu be arrested in Poland?Gender-neutral families in Lithuania Thursday church in Sweden instead of Sunday
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2025-01-1309 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian news 6 January 2025Christian news from EuropeCriticism that the large Protestant church in Germany is not outspoken enough about abortion.Political debate about gender in both Norway and the Netherlands.Anti-Christian mentality growing in Europe."My voice, my choice" European Citizen's Initiative (ECI) about abortion receives 1 million signatures.
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2025-01-0609 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian news 23 December 2024The character of Christmas songs.Archaeological discovery in Germany that sheds new light on history of Christianity north of the Alps.Future of child's protection in Lithuania unclear.Remaining concerns about Russian parliament's plans about house churches.
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2024-12-2313 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian news 16 December 2024Men's suffering under abortion.Euthanasia and doctor-assisted dying in Malta.Christian education in Germany.Banking problems for Christians in Sweden.Religious freedom in the European Parliament.Going to church on Christmas Eve in Germany.Denial of parental rights in Switzerland.
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CNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian news 9 December 2024Assisted suicide in BritainNotre Dame reopening in FranceAI Jesus in Swiss churchHate crime laws change in PolandConscientious objectors under fire in Ukraine
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2024-12-0909 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian news 2 December 2024Right-wing parties in the German Protestant ChurchReligious protest against asylum policy in the NetherlandsPrayer for Volkswagen in an Auto Museum in GermanyInterview about sperm extraction from dead soldiers in Israel and UkraineLeaving X (or Twitter) by Christians in SwedenConstitutional Court blocks reform of religious education in Poland
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2024-12-0210 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian news 25 November 2024Abortion in Germany. Polarisation between Jews and Muslims in Denmark. Conversion therapy ban in the European Commission. Financial crisis at Bible Society Norway. Surrogacy in France.Question and answer with journalist Katie Idema about chaplain in Norwegian parliament.
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2024-11-2507 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian news 18 November 2024Christian news from the European continent.Antisemitism in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Pro-life petition against abortion legislation in Norway.State inspection at church Sunday school in the Netherlands.Church inspiration to marry in church in Denmark.Debate about John 3:16 at Norwegian funerals.Protest against Christmas tree in Vatican City.
For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at https://cne.news/subscribe 2024-11-1812 minCNE's Newsround EuropeNewsRound Europe with Christian news from the European continentChristians reaching out after floods in Spain. Former Prime Minister chooses for euthanasia. Criticism on German gender identification law. French President Macron will speak in the church. Christian prize for Danish Queen Margrethe. And a talk with CNE journalist Kathryn Idema about the Dutch Biblebelt.For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletters at
https://cne.news/subscribe2024-11-1109 minCNE's Newsround EuropeTrailerA brief introduction of the purpose of Newsround Europe from Christian Network Europe (CNE.news).We will give a weekly update of the latest news on the European continent for & about Christians. For anything to know about issues like marriage and family, the protection of life and Christian education, or anything else that matters to Christians.For more, visit https://CNE.news or subscribe to our newsletter at https://cne.news/subscribe
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