Tag: faith and religion
Bishop blocks appointment of professors – Bavaria
Imagine a person – man or woman – who is outstanding. She teaches and researches at the university, she is academically excellent, understands her subject, theological social ethics, in its…
Easter joke from Easter on Easter – Bavaria
Something unusual must have happened if a video on the Internet portal YouTube reaches a million views within three days. The Passau Bishop Stefan Oster achieved this by telling a…
Concept of God in Omri Boehm and Thomas Mann: Why sacrifice the son? – Culture
God demands that Abraham bring his son Isaac to him as a burnt offering, and only when Abraham has already raised his hand with the knife to kill the boy…
Religious Freedom: A Pointer to Diversity
Antonio Rüdiger gave a sign on Instagram that can be interpreted in different ways. That could have gone better. Judge him for that? The world religions are there. source site
Consequences of the Middle East conflict in Munich: The great silence after the terror
The war in Gaza has also opened up deep rifts in Munich, between Jews and Muslims, Israelis and Palestinians. Those affected experience anger, sadness and a great lack of speech.…
Religion and customs: The wondrous world of rituals – Bavaria
Praying, burning incense, meditating – people across all denominations seem to have a basic need for holy acts. Why is that? It is just 100 kilometers from Munich to Japan.…
Munich: Easter Sunday and Easter Monday in the churches – Munich
At the solemn mass on Easter Sunday in Cathedral of Our Lady At 10 a.m. with Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the cathedral choir, the young cathedral choir, soloists and the cathedral…
Bavaria: The desecration of Jewish cemeteries is evidence of ongoing anti-Semitism – Bavaria
For two years, Elisabeth-Singer Brehm has been working through meters of files in Bavarian archives. The folklorist and Judaizer at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) records all…
Prantl’s view: The big questions in life arise at Easter – politics
Everyone knows what birth is. Nobody really knows what the resurrection is all about. Easter, the festival of the Resurrection, which we celebrate in a few days, has never had…
Religious critics want to overturn Söder’s crucifixion decree in Karlsruhe – Bavaria
The critics of the controversial cruise decree in Bavaria want to move to Karlsruhe after the legal defeat before the Federal Administrative Court. As the Association for Freedom of Thought…