Noticias de Protestante Digital

News published in Protestante Digital A daily online magazine of opinion and information about society and religion in Spain and internationally, especially evangelical Christianity, from a Protestant perspective. The first issue of Protestante Digital appeared on September 5, 2003. The online magazine was launched with the support of the Alianza Evangélica Española (founded in 1877) to provide an accurate and representative picture of Spanish and international Protestantism, as well as its view of society and religion. From the outset it developed rapidly and gained an increasingly broad audience. This led to the launch of the multimedia section in 2005, which achieved excellent reach; in 2009, visits comfortably exceeded two million and page views exceeded 18 million. As a result of this progress, Protestante Digital underwent various technical and operational upgrades. The most extensive, a complete overhaul, took place in February 2010, giving the magazine a new look and design, strengthening user participation, social media, and multimedia and interactive content, and turning Protestante Digital into an online daily (until then it had been a weekly publication with three updates per week). Protestante Digital is part of the Areópago Protestante project, which seeks to be a forum for encounter and dialogue between Protestantism and society, including other religions. The name comes from the scene in the Book of Acts in which the apostle Paul is in Athens, at the Areopagus, speaking and listening from the perspective of his Christian faith while understanding the surrounding culture. Besides Protestante Digital, Areópago Protestante includes the Premio Unamuno amigo de los protestantes and the English-language version of Protestante Digital (Protestant Digital), with the hope that new projects can be added in the future. Areópago Protestante is in turn an initiative promoted by the Alianza Evangélica Española, to which it is ultimately accountable. The Evangelical Alliance is the oldest interdenominational organization in present-day Protestantism. It originated in London in 1846 to promote Christian unity and defend biblical Christianity on the basis of a distinctly evangelical statement of faith. In Spain, the Evangelical Alliance was founded in September 1877 and began its activities in 1878, although it was not legally constituted until 1914. It is one of the principal points of reference for Spanish Protestantism (although by no means the only one) and represents Spain in the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) and the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA, which represents 430 million evangelicals worldwide). The EEA and WEA bring its voice to institutions such as the European Parliament and the United Nations.