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Garden of Gethsemane: Easter Reflection
Welcome to the Garden.
A place of beauty and tranquillity. A place of new life, where plants rise from the soil and trees bud each spring with blossoms that promise fruit to come. Yet the Easter Garden of Gethsemane was not a place of hope or possibility. Gethsemane was a place of betrayal, a place of sorrow, a place that, on that night, seemed entirely without hope. Mark 14 37-38 NIVUK “Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping.
‘Simon,’ he said to Peter,
Alan Donaldson
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Six Months into Service: Reflections from the EBF President and Vice President
EBF President and Vice President have been in their new role now for six months. Let's hear what they have been seeing and hearing.
EBF Communications
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New churches are being planted in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa
EBF Communications
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European Baptist Federation and Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe Launch a Second Round of Ecumenical Dialogue
The European Baptist Federation (EBF) and the Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) have launched a renewed dialogue to strengthen unity among Protestant churches. Their first meeting took place in March 2025 in Elstal, Germany. Bringing together theologians from across Europe, the dialogue will continue through a series of meetings, with a final report expected in 2028.
EBF Communications
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People Above Borders: Migration and the Future of the Church in Italy
As Europe seeks to “stop the boats,” churches in Italy are living another narrative — one where broken threads are rewoven into communities shaped by welcome and hope.
Juliet Kilpin
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