• Prayer for the Year 2026

    Prayer for the Year 20260

    by Peter Artman and Robbert-Jan Perk (EEA Hope for Europe Prayer Network)

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  • From Vulnerability to Strength

    From Vulnerability to Strength0

    There are two things I have struggled with for as long as I can remember: I never felt fully at home anywhere, and I was never sure I was good enough.
    I was born the early 1980s in Georgia into a mixed Georgian-Ukrainian family. Living through the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the rise of nationalist discourse, I was never fully accepted as “purely Georgian.” “Georgia for Georgians” was the driving motto of society. Already in my school years, I would hear from classmates: “Go away, you Russian”—a pejorative at the time. Some teachers would crush my enthusiasm for learning by saying, “You will never think and write like real Georgians.” I remember feeling ashamed of my background, of my mother, and wishing she could be like “all the other moms” at school’s parents meetings.

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  • Faith in Social Action

    Faith in Social Action0

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    • December 11, 2025

    Recently, I was talking to a Christian colleague who works in the world of anti-human trafficking ministry. (I chair the Board of the European Freedom Network). She had been talking with a non-Christian leader in the same field who seemed distinctly suspicious of the faith element of Christians who reach out to serve the most needy.

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