Luxembourg is situated between France, Belgium and Germany. They have 100% literacy rate and are a highly industrialized and highly educated multilingual workforce, with an excellent infrastructure. Banking and finance are the dominant economy in a country known for its low taxes. It has the 2nd highest GDP per capita in the world. They are a melting pot of religions too. There is a strong Catholic heritage, but many other faiths have recently increased, including Islam, Orthodoxy, Jehovah’s Witness, and Eastern mysticism. Evangelicals are a small minority and have a negative bias from the government and society with the stigma […]
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One of three Baltic states, Lithuania is a country of many forests and lakes. Over their long history, they have been ruled by Poland, Russia and Ukraine, but have swiftly oriented to the West in modern times. They were the last European nation to be Christianized, and have a strong affiliation with Catholicism due to Polish influence, and therefore still have some opposition to non-traditional evangelical groups. This puts them in a difficult situation today. Traditional Catholicism is what held them through the Soviet era and so they still cling to it in name, but just like many other countries […]
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A pre-Soviet state, Latvia is the central of three Baltic republics. It has been ruled over the years by Germans, Danes, Poles, Swedes and Russians since the Middle Ages. Stalin’s conquest in 1940 liquidated a fifth of the population, deported many more and forcibly settled Russians in their place. Latvia has long and deep pagan roots and are among the last European peoples to be Christianized in the 13th century. They became early supporters of Luther and much of the population converted to Lutheranism. More recently though, the Nazis harshly persecuted the church. Today, after the fall of Communism, they […]
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Italy is a mountainous peninsula that dominates the Mediterranean Sea and includes two large islands, Sardinia and Sicily. Italy has contributed much to the world – legal systems of Roman law, Latin language, Renaissance culture of art and music, and many fashion innovations. Christianity flourished here but soon became a formalized state religion of cultural Catholicism. They were virtually untouched by the Protestant Reformation and have never had Biblical revival. The Roman Catholic Church is now in crisis. Though the church is active in Italian identity, very few people faithfully practice Catholicism, even as low as 3%. Organized crime is […]
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About the Author
Sue McCusker is a writer, Bible teacher, and web developer who loves to share the stories of life, hope, and faith she sees around her every day. She has written for Guideposts and Angels on Earth magazines, and teaches the story of God in women's Bible study.
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