Category - Germany

Church near Berlin Wall hosts event to mark its role in epochal change

Stephen Brown — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:31:51 +0000

Germany's political and church leaders have marked the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall on 9 November with an ecumenical service at the Protestant church in eastern Berlin which played a key role in the events.

The Berlin Wall fell in many places

Stephen Brown — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:14:28 +0000

The political and social shock waves caused by weeks of pro-democracy protests in East Germany followed by the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, were felt around the world, says Stephen Brown. They still resonate today, and have important theological implications.

Fall of Berlin Wall continues to inspire, says world churches' chief

staff writers — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:48:25 +0000

Christian resistance contributed significantly to the fall of the Berlin Wall, says the Rev Sam Kobia, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, on the 20th anniversary of the epochal event that ended the cold war.

New German Protestant leader pledges to speak out to church and society

Ecumenical News International — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:09:59 +0000

Bishop Margot Kässmann, the first woman to lead the Protestant church in Germany, has pledged to work to promote Christian unity and action for justice and peace.

German Protestant leader encourages North Korean Christians

Ecumenical News International — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:43:38 +0100

Germany's senior Protestant bishop has urged Christians in officially atheist North Korea to obey God "rather than human beings". Issues of nuclear weapons and the division of Korea into north and south face the isolated nation.

Hamburg denominations share Harbour City building

Ecumenical News International — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:01:01 +0100

Eighteen Christian denominations in Hamburg have embarked on an endeavour unique in Germany to share a single building in the northern German city's new 'Harbour City' development.

East Germany's peaceful revolution remembered in church campaign

Stephen Brown — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:52:43 +0100

Christians in eastern Germany have launched a campaign to mark the 20th anniversary of the peaceful revolution that overthrew communism, with a light sculpture shone onto the walls of the regional parliament building in Erfurt.

German arms exporters lambasted by leading Protestant bishop

Ecumenical News International — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:25:44 +0100

Germany's top Protestant cleric, Bishop Wolfgang Huber, has criticised Germany's role as a major global arms exporter, the largest weapons seller in Europe as a whole.

German Christians aim to put the whole Bible on Twitter

Ecumenical News International — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:53:52 +0100

German Christians are starting what they hope will be a record-breaking effort to use the Internet social-networking and micro-blogging service Twitter to try and "tweet" the Bible.

Mixed Jewish response to Pope's attempt to mend rupture

Ecumenical News International — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:01 +0000

An Israeli Jewish leader has welcomed Pope Benedict's support for a statement condemning Holocaust denial, but a German leader says the issue of the reinstatement of an anti-Semitic bishop is not resolved.