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Ever since the Berlin Wall went up, East Germany's Communist government has been pressuring the country's Evangelical Church to break its ties with Protestantism in West Germany. Last week, in a remarkable act of defiance against their Red bosses, East German Protestant leaders unanimously voted to maintain the union-and then went on to join with their West German counterparts in electing a new chairman of the All-German Church Council...
Equally defiant of Communist hopes was the synod's participation in the election of a new council chairman, Germany's top Protestant post. The man chosen-Bavaria's Bishop Hermann Dietzfelbinger, 58-was in fact formally proposed by the Fiirstenwalde session. Regarded as a moderate on the...
Speaking last month to a Protestant conference on welfare work in West Germany, Theologian Siegfried Keil of Marburg University argued that while sexual mores have quite obviously changed during the 2,000 years of Christian history, churchmen nonetheless continue to act as if there were a permanent, inflexible standard of...
Sir: As a Lutheran, I found your story of particular interest. Many consider the Lutheran Church to be a sleeping giant among the denominations, with the mystique of the Roman Catholic Church and the evangelism of the Protestant churches. No one can say we are narrow-minded in our attitude...
Once as hostile as warring African tribes, the Protestant and Catholic churches of The Netherlands have reached a remarkable degree of accord. Mixed marriages are often celebrated jointly by priests and ministers, and non-Catholics are no longer required to promise that they will raise their children in the church...