Thursday, 02 November 2023 21:51
France: combatting the rise in anti-semitism
Prime minister Elisabeth Borne has pledged to combat rising antisemitism vigorously after anti-Jewish graffiti was discovered on buildings in various Paris neighbourhoods. She emphasised that the situation in the Middle East should not justify antisemitism and…
Friday, 20 October 2023 09:24
Germany: petrol bombs thrown at Berlin synagogue
On 18 October two people threw Molotov cocktails at a synagogue in Berlin, as anti-Semitic violence escalated in Europe. The attacks came after Hezbollah called for a ‘day of rage’ over the explosion at a hospital…
Thursday, 19 October 2023 22:07
EU countries welcome Polish election result
Politicians across Europe have been encouraged by the result of the Polish election on 15 October - especially in Germany, the favourite target of the ousted Law and Justice (PiS) party. A German MEP said, ‘I…
Thursday, 19 October 2023 22:03
Italy: evangelical group condemns Vatican ecumenical meeting
Italian evangelical Christians have protested against the ‘active and public’ participation of Thomas Schirrmacher, secretary-general of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) in a large ecumenical prayer vigil organised in the Vatican on 30 September. This featured…
Thursday, 12 October 2023 20:38
Poland: bitter election campaign splits country
In the old shipyard in Gdansk, where striking workers were once the catalyst for major political change, young Poles now worry that the rights and freedoms won by the Solidarity movement over three decades ago are…
Thursday, 12 October 2023 20:35
Russia seeks to freeze Ukraine’s counteroffensive
In the 85th week of the war, Russia is trying to freeze Kyiv’s four-month-old counteroffensive which has succeeded in wresting back half the territory captured earlier this year and depriving Russia of control of the western…