Attacks planned on Euro 2016
On 4 June Ukraine’s security service said that a French citizen detained in late May on the border with Poland had been planning attacks in France to coincide with the Euro 2016 football championship. The unnamed…
Italy: lawmakers defy Church over same-sex union
In Italy, the very birthplace of Roman Catholicism, a bill that contradicts the teaching of the Bible has been overwhelmingly approved by lawmakers, allowing the civil union of same-sex couples amid widespread strong objections, especially from…
Europe: floods and climate change
The European Environment Agency reports, ‘Temperatures are rising, rainfall patterns are shifting, glaciers and snow are melting, and the global mean sea level is rising. These changes are expected to continue, and extreme weather events such…
Bulgaria: meeting point of Europe
The Bulgarian people-group is formed from the ancestral mixing of the Bulgar and Slavic peoples, but the country is also home to Macedonian, Millet, Turkic, and Roma people, with Greek, Slavic, Ottoman and Persian influences. It…
