Tag: Protestant church
Evangelical Church enables weddings at Munich Airport – Munich
Evangelical Lutheran pastors marry couples who are spontaneous enough for the first time at Munich Airport. How the offer is accepted. The fact that Munich isn’t Las Vegas after all…
Bavaria’s Protestant state synod meets for the first time after the abuse study – Bavaria
Detlef Zander chooses drastic words: “The abuse scandal is a shot in the neck for the institution.” It is dead quiet in the hall of the congress center in Coburg.…
Sexual violence: "Rebellion is not our thing"
There are also thousands of cases of sexual abuse in the Protestant church. But at the base it is surprisingly quiet. A pastor fights against silence – also with her…
Primary school in Bavaria: Does religious education still have a future? – Bavaria
The subject has few advocates, as the recent debates about primary school reform showed: many people called for Reli to be cut rather than other subjects. Wrongly? Time to take…
New findings about sexual violence in a Bavarian children’s home
As of: March 27, 2024 12:36 p.m A Protestant deacon becomes the director of a children’s home in the late 1960s. There he committed sexual violence on several occasions. A…
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…
Forum abuse study by the Protestant Church: No case numbers for Munich – Munich
It will take time before the full suffering of those affected by sexual violence in the Protestant church becomes visible. This can be seen in the gradualness with which the…
Anti-Semitism: “The biggest mistake is to avoid the topic” – Munich
75 years ago, the first society for Christian-Jewish cooperation in Germany was founded in Munich. Andreas Renz is one of the board members. A conversation about prejudice, hatred of Jews…
Evangelical regional church wants to check personnel files for suspected abuse – Bavaria
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (ELKB) wants to have all available personnel files examined by external experts for suspected cases of sexual violence. An ELKB spokesman told the SZ…
Munich: New Protestant regional bishop introduced into office – Munich
Thomas Prieto Peral has traveled widely around the world. Not as a vacationer, but as a traveler on behalf of the church, he visited people in crisis regions, in northern…