Within a single week, two historic milestones took place in Amman: the European Baptist Federation celebrated its 75th anniversary and the Baptist World Alliance appointed its first Ambassador to the Middle East.
This issue of A Public Witness travels to Norway to hear from Christians who are wrestling with what it means to live and witness as a Christian in a post-Christendom society.
Brian Kaylor reports from the 2022 general council of the European Baptist Federation in Riga, Latvia. A focus of the gathering is the war on Ukraine and how to support believers in the nation and refugees fleeing to other countries.
There are just a few countries in Europe where Baptists are not yet present; until recently, Cyprus was in this number.
Albania, once declared an atheist state, today is very ripe spiritually yet poverty-stricken. The Baptist Union of Albania is one of the smallest in Europe, but very missions minded, as existing churches are being multiplied.