Eurasia News

By Marc Ira Hooks SOCHI, Russia (BP) — Excitement is mounting in the Olympic host city of Sochi, Russia, where last week the countdown clock in the central square displayed only 365 days until the Opening Ceremonies of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games. On Thursday night, Russian dignitaries and Olympic officials celebrated the event in [...]

By Kate Ryan PLZEN, Czech Republic — Larry and Melissa Lewis stood in Plzen’s town square and watched the woman walk right toward them. Just as they thought she might speak, she brushed past to take hold of the iron gate. She reached out, paused briefly at a row of golden angels and turned to [...]

By Marc Ira Hooks LONDON — Though the Winter Olympic Games in Russia are still 18 months away, church planters in the host city of Sochi are already hard at work to capitalize on what the “Olympic Spirit” will bring to their city. And they recently spent time in London during the Summer Olympics getting [...]

By Ava Thomas EUROPE — t was a dark day, the day David Eilenberg* faced the statue of Christ just outside the Catholic church and bellowed, “Where are you, Jesus?” Silence. That day, in the depths of the Holocaust, the Polish Jew hung up belief. Millions of Eilenberg’s fellow Jews died and were put in [...]