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by bcadmin | Jan 18, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic-Lutheran dialogue, Finland, Lutheran Church, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Week of Prayer for Christian Unity | 0 |
When the goal of Christian unity seems far off, “let us remind ourselves that we are making this journey not as those who already possess God but as those who continue to seek him,” Pope Francis told members of an ecumenical pilgrimage from Finland.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 17, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic Church (Germany), Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, ecumenical ecumenism, German bishops, German Church, Germany, Lutheran Church, News | 0 |
Germany’s Third Ecumenical Convention concluded in Frankfurt May 16 with an open-air church service on the bank of the River Main. With the city’s skyline of office towers providing the backdrop, some 400 people attended the service, including German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 5, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Ecumenical relations, Ecumenism, German Church, Germany, Lutheran Church, News | 0 |
Instead of comfortable footwear, participants in Germany’s third ecumenical convention, or kirchentag, will need stable internet connections. Organizers had hoped to attract more than 100,000 visitors to the approximately 2,000 public events May 13-16. With the COVID-19 pandemic, that has changed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 26, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Denmark, Lutheran Church, Murder, News | 0 |
A Danish Lutheran priest on Monday was charged with murdering his wife, even though her body has never been found.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, German bishops, German Church, Germany, inter-communion, intercommunion, Lutheran Church, News | 0 |
he German Catholic bishops’ conference and the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany plan to continue their discussions about shared Communion
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, German Church, Germany, Lutheran Church, News | 0 |
In a message marking the Oct. 3 German Unity Day, churches in Germany issued a warning about the divisive forces in society.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 24, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, German Church, Germany, Lutheran Church, migrants and refugees, News | 0 |
Lutheran Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, president of the Protestant Church in Germany, has called for greater political recognition of maritime rescue efforts of refugees in the Mediterranean.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 25, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Lutheran Church, News, Sweden, women priests | 0 |
The Church of Sweden has more female than male priests for the first time, according to numbers released this month, a sign of huge strides for gender equality since women were first allowed to be ordained in 1960.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 8, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Lutheran Church, New York City, News, Queens | 0 |
The paths of two New York City churches diverged this week — one reopened and one stayed closed. But they have shared a tragic fate, together losing at least 134 members of their mostly Hispanic congregations to the coronavirus.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 12, 2020 | Archdiocese of New York, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Diocese of Brooklyn, Funerals, Lutheran Church, New York City, News | 0 |
One is a Catholic church in Queens; the other, a Lutheran church in Manhattan. But the COVID-19 pandemic has united the two Hispanic congregations in grief.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 11, 2020 | Associated Press, atheism, Church in Europe, Denmark, Lutheran Church, News | 0 |
A Danish Lutheran minister who attracted international attention by proclaiming that there is no God or afterlife, but retracted after being suspended, has died. He was 72.
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