Serbia: An empty Christian tradition
03 Jul 2015
Captured sixty times and destroyed thirty-eight times, Serbia’s beautiful capital city Belgrade exemplifies the war and civil unrest that the Balkan Peninsula has undergone over the past two millennia. Ethnicity and religion go hand-in-hand. Over half…
San Marino: Evangelists needed
03 Jul 2015
San Marino is a small country located inside the borders of Italy. It is the world’s oldest republic and was founded in AD301. Most of the country is Catholic, and there is freedom of religion but…
Russia: Gas links to Ukraine break down
03 Jul 2015
Russian gas firm Gazprom has confirmed that it has again halted gas supplies to Ukraine after a breakdown on pricing talks. It comes a day after Ukraine's state energy firm Naftogaz announced it was suspending gas…
Romania is still working to overcome the physical, economic, and emotional damages brought about by 42 years of oppressive totalitarian rule. Much-needed economic reforms were slow to be implemented. Motivation to join the European Union accelerated…
Portugal: Catholic country that needs reviving
03 Jul 2015
As a predominantly Catholic country, Portugal is even further unified by the culturally embedded traditions and practices of the church. Despite this, drug use has become prevalent, with half of all teenagers reportedly experimenting with illegal…
Poland: Cool spiritual temperature
03 Jul 2015
It was the Catholic Church that kept Polish culture from crumbling under the Communist regime. Now in 2015 Saudi Arabia, one of the most hostile nations towards Christianity and boasting to have a 100 percent Muslim…