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From refugee care to church planting and innovative community ministries, a recent visit to Moldova offers a compelling glimpse of a church living out holistic mission with courage and care.

A joyful international church in Brno

Gathering in Uzbekistan, the EBF Executive Committee encountered a living testimony of faith, resilience, and unity—reminding us that across cultures and challenges, we are one in Christ and called to share His hope.

Christian women’s witness today looks very diverse

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,

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.

New churches are being planted in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa

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.

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.

Church in Iran

Since the first night of invasion, the global Baptist family has stood together in prayer. Four years later, that commitment remains — sustained by faith, shaped by testimony, and anchored in hope.