Tag: Lent
Despite the climate emergency, more than 400 billion euros lent to coal industries by banks
One small step for the planet. Banks around the world have lent $470 billion (439 billion euros) to coal companies between 2021 and 2023, said the NGO Urgewald on Thursday,…
Supermarkets sold less alcohol and meat at the start of the year
As of: April 11, 2024 10:23 a.m Less meat, alcohol and sweets – the abstinence during Lent is noticeable at the supermarket checkouts. But resolutions like “Veganuary” at the beginning…
Archive Day in Bavaria: Beer wars, monastery food and historical pretzels – Bavaria
What did our ancestors cook centuries ago and what did their food taste like? Questions you would like to have an answer to. There are such things, you just need…
Detox, minimalism, fasting: renunciation does not have to be religious – Bavaria
Give up your smartphone, chocolate, coffee, alcohol? Only eat at certain times? Stop shopping and instead clear out your closet? This is all called detox, minimalism – or fasting. In…
Lent: cheating for advanced – Bavaria
Recently, the Meitingen Kolping Family organized their traditional fasting meal “with a well-laid table” and afterwards let it be known that everyone went home “with a well-filled stomach”. At first…
Lent: What the abstinence from alcohol and sweets brings
Fasting 2023 Alcohol, sweets, meat, tobacco – what the mini-waiver brings from Ash Wednesday (and what not) According to a survey, 68 percent of Germans want to go without sweets…
Unusual Stations of the Cross in the extraordinary church – Ebersberg
Nice new things belong in a new house. This also applies to a place of worship. When the Poinger parish church of Seliger Pater Rupert Mayer, which is unusual in…
The secrets of the “real” Batmobile lent to the cinema and miniatures museum
It was the surprise of last week, the arrival of the Batmobile in Lyon. Parked until March 5 in the courtyard of the cinema and miniature museum, the official car…
Lent: The Germans do without this most often
For the sake of health Germans do without this when fasting A pint of beer is not appropriate during Lent © Heiko Becker / Picture Alliance 04/02/2022 10:47 am 1…
Matthew Passion in Basel – Culture
Passion time is when there are chocolate eggs for everyone, for both children and adults, you might think. Because chocolate eggs and bunnies are already piling up in the supermarkets,…