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by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2022 | Bavaria, Black Death, Featured, News, Oberammergau, Passion Play, Passionsspiel, Reformation, U.S. & World News | 0 |
In 1633, at the height of the Reformation, the Black Death was sweeping through Europe, including the southern German region of Bavaria. The terrified people of one small village decided to do something to protect themselves from this pandemic: The villagers vowed that every 10 years they would perform a “Passionsspiel” — a play depicting the Passion of Christ — should their hamlet be spared.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 9, 2020 | Anti-semitism, Associated Press, Bavaria, Catholic Church, Catholic-Jewish relations, Church History, Church in Europe, German Church, Germany, Jews, Medieval history, News | 0 |
Authorities, churches and Jewish communities in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria have agreed that anti-Semitic statues and carvings dating back to the Middle Ages shouldn’t be removed from churches, an official said Tuesday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 23, 2020 | Asylum seekers, Bavaria, Benedictine abbess, German, Kirchschletten, Mother Mechthild Thurmer, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
A Benedictine abbess who granted refuge to female asylum-seekers faces trial for refusing to pay a fine, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 22, 2020 | Associated Press, Bavaria, Catholic Church, Georg Ratzinger, News, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Vatican | 0 |
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI returned to the Vatican on Monday after a four-day visit to his ailing elder brother in their native Germany.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 21, 2020 | Associated Press, Bavaria, Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Georg Ratzinger, Germany, News, Regensburg | 0 |
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI visited his former home near Regensburg, Germany, on Saturday, greeted old neighbors and prayed at his parents’ grave as part of a trip to his former haunts to be with his seriously ill 96-year-old brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 21, 2020 | Bavaria, Benedict XVI, Georg Ratzinger, Germany, lead, News, News Analysis, Papacy | 0 |
A surprise trip by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI to his native Bavaria to be with his dying brother, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, seems to be firing fevered political and religious imaginations.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 17, 2020 | Associated Press, Bavaria, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, German Church, Germany, News, Racism | 0 |
Catholic Church officials in Germany say they are transferring a black priest to another post over concern for his safety, after his house and car were attacked and he received a death threat.
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