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Europe for Brazilians

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

I’m here in Brazil for the 6th meeting of the Lausanne International Researchers’ Conference. My paper today looks at secularisation in Europe, drawing on data that my colleague, Jim Memory, and I have been collating and analysing from the 2008 … Continue reading →

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Russian Baptist superintendents graduate and Mission Department reports on progress

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

From William Yoder (6th April 2011), news of Superintendents gaining Master’s degrees is cause for congratulations from European Baptist Federation President, Valeriu Ghiletchi: — On 23 March, Moscow’s First Baptist Church celebrated the graduation of sixteen of the RUECB’s superintendents … Continue reading →

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Megachurches in France

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

Sebastien Fath, French researcher and academic, presented a paper at last August’s Association for the Sociology of Religion in Atlanta, GA, in which he discusses four French megachurches (a church of over 2,000 members). These pentecostal or charismatic churches are … Continue reading →

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Ubicumque et Semper ‘Always and Everywhere’: a new evangelisation of Europe

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

    Pope Benedict XVI has issued an apostolic letter (or motu proprio)  in which he establishes a new Vatican office to be know as the ‘Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization’. The intention is to establish a focus for … Continue reading →

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Language teaching opportunities in Georgia underline differences with its Armenian neighbour

Posted on October 18, 2010 by

Georgian and Armenian schools face radical changes to their foreign-language learning. Whilst Armenia opted to open 15 foreign-language schools, Georgia has announced plans for all 597,800 of its schoolchildren to have English as their second language by 2014. Meanwhile, Armenia’s … Continue reading →

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German church decline prompts call for 'deep spiritual renewal'

Posted on May 17, 2010 by

The latest news item from the European Baptist Federation paints a rather depressing picture of membership decline within the German Federation of Evangelical-Free Churches (Baptist and Brethren). Titled ‘We will continue to grow smaller’ the article reports from the recent … Continue reading →

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Mission-shaped ministry in ministry-shaped churches

Posted on May 1, 2010 by

Enjoying sitting in on a panel discussion about how to train men and women for ministry and mission in a multi-cultural and multi-religious setting? It seems that the question is easier to ask than to answer.  For the classic western … Continue reading →

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Work-free Sunday urged by EU Deputies

Posted on March 26, 2010 by

EU Observer reports today that ‘A third of euro-deputies have signed an appeal urging the European Commission to include work-free Sundays into an upcoming review of EU rules on working time, with the responsible commissioner pledging to “take into account” … Continue reading →

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Cross-cultural EU divorces at 140,000 per year

Posted on March 25, 2010 by

The EU’s Justice Minister, Viviane Reding, said on Wednesday (24th March) that she does ‘not want people in the EU to be left to manage complicated international divorces alone.’ The EU’s annual divorce rate passed 1 million in 2005 and … Continue reading →

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Where is Europe?

Posted on March 4, 2010 by

Seems a pretty fundamental question to ask for a Research Centre focussed on European mission. It’s not an easy question to answer though. I’ve decided that most Brits think Europe begins on the other side of the channel (that’s ‘la manche’ … Continue reading →

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