A significant piece of church history is being written in Vienna this weekend as the European Football championship kicks off. Different denominations were planning their own individual outreach activities-until the Catholic council of bishops proposed that all the churches…
Before sailing around the shoreline of Holland's old Zuider Zee with my three sons last week, I packed a suitably nautical book in my kit called 'The Plimsoll Sensation', in case we got becalmed. The book had caught my…
Not only in Stockholm and Amsterdam, but also in London, thousands of Christians have taken church out onto the streets over Pentecost with festive presentations of the message of Jesus. Totally independent of the events we reported over the…
Christians in Amsterdam this year are grasping Pentecost as an occasion to reach out across cultural and religious borders, as they seek the welfare of the city. Under the motto 'Get the Spirit', they have initiated a nine-day…
Sweden doesn't usually make headlines for its spirituality. But on Saturday records were broken when 15,000 Christians formed the largest crowd ever to fill the Kungsträdgården (King's Garden) in the centre of Stockholm, the nation's capital, in a multi-cultural…
