Obama pitches for a global presidency in Berlin speech

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is today making an unprecedented campaign pitch in Berlin, Germany, and has drawn an enthusiastic crowd of 100,000. But how will this go down in the USA? That is the question political analysts are asking as the young...

German Olympic bracelets highlight human rights issues

A German church has far exceeded its initial expectations in so far distributing more than 200,000 black bracelets intended as a symbolic protest against human rights abuses in China during the Olympic Games in Beijing. “It shows that people want to stand up for...

Church peace delegation questions German arms sales

On a visit to the German Federal Defence Ministry in Berlin, members of a delegation from the World Council of Churches (WCC) have posed tough questions about German arms sales and about whether wars, such as the Iraq war, can ever really solve problems. The WCC...

Churches urged to confront the issue of domestic violence

German churches’ prcatical experience with confronting the issue of domestic violence will play an important role in a Peace Declaration of the World Council of Churches planned for 2011. “The churches have denied the existence of this issue for a long...

Idolatry, the American way?

Let Damon Linker, author of The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege summarize Charles Marsh and his Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from Cultural Captivity : “A professor of religion at the University of Virginia and a devout evangelical, Marsh...