Sweden’s minister for migration and asylum policy has urged European Union countries to make greater efforts to resettle refugees from outside Europe.
Category: October 2009, Europe
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has in recent weeks spoken several times of the importance of interreligious dialogue and stated that his country offers a unique example in that sphere.
Category: World, Europe, News Update
The government of Turkey has agreed to extend indefinitely permission for Christian worship at an historic church in Tarsus, the birthplace of St. Paul, says the head of the country’s Roman Catholic bishops’ conference.
Category: September 2009, Europe

Christians in Europe should mark 2010 as the year they create more secure societies by strengthening their work with migrants, refugees and ethnic minorities, a European church leader has said.
Category: September 2009, Europe
The Roman Catholic Church's Year of St. Paul ended with a flourish on June 28, as Pope Benedict XVI announced that scientists had authenticated the first-century saint's earthly remains under a church in Rome.
Category: World, Europe, News Update
The head of the World Council of Churches has warned of a backlash in Europe against migrants and refugees, after gains by anti-immigration parties in elections to the European Union parliament.
Category: World Council of Churches, World, Europe, News Update
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is accepting donations for victims of the powerful earthquake that devastated the medieval city of L’Aquila, in central Italy, and the surrounding areas on April 6.
Category: News Update, World, Europe

Ecumenical leaders, including Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, welcomed the election of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad as the 16th Patriarch of Moscow and of all Russia.
Category: March 2009, Europe
The Central Council of Jews in Germany is to take part in the country's annual Christian-Jewish "Week of Fraternity" after first expressing scepticism because of a controversy surrounding the Vatican's lifting of the excommunication of a breakaway bishop who has denied that Jews died in Nazi gas chambers.
Category: News Update, World, Europe, Middle East
Russian minority churches have voiced cautious optimism about their prospects under the country's new Orthodox patriarch, Kirill I, after messages of welcome from church leaders worldwide following his installation on 1 February.
Category: News Update, World, Europe