EKD-Bulletin 04/2004

• Imprint
• Editorial
• Synod demands better compatibility of family and career

  Main topic deals with fairness between the generations

• Huber: Erosion of trust is the key topic of 2004

  EKD Council Chairman presents a report of his first year in office

• Synod in favour of open-ended accession negotiations with Turkey

  Still significant difficulties for the Christian minority

• Delegation of the Herero people visited the EKD Synod

  100 years after the colonial war a sign of reconciliation

• "Reconciliation without punishment?"

  Material booklet on Human Rights Day

• Huber: "Inter-religious cheating doesn't work any more"

  Following the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh

• Evangelical Church in Germany mourns the South African theologian Beyers Naudé
• "Strengthen the rights of those affected by deportation"

  Prelate Reimers demands the extension of deportation observation

• Koppe: Ecumenism needs an active information system

  Bishop for foreign relations on the future of the ecumenical movement

• "Reform is for people's sake"
• Sixth Serbia Conference in Berlin

  Churches make a joint contribution to reconciliation and Europe growing closer

• Churches in Belarus join forces against Aids
• "Israel and Palestine have to keep to the Roadmap"

  Expert talks about the Near East conflict with the EKD representative

• 100 years of Christchurch (Christuskirche) in London

  German-speaking Evangelical community celebrates its centenary

• Theological dialogue between the EKD and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

  The subject of mercy at the centre of the 13th meeting

• Faith with restricted freedom

  EKD delegation finds out about the situation of Christians in China

• "The strength and the promise of peace"

  Video messages on the International Day of Prayer for Peace

• Water as a means of life

  46th "Bread for the World" campaign opened

• Doing more for the hungry

  "Bread for the World" welcomes FAO guidelines on the human right to food

• Exemplary commitment to tolerance and human rights

  "Bread for the World" partners receive awards

• "Show us your world!"

  The children's campaign from "Bread for the World"

• Human rights always in mind

  On the death of Werner Lottje

• Foreign direct investments: Not a universal cure for poverty

  The Church Development Service (EED) criticises the World Bank's World Development Report 2005 and demands international rules for foreign direct investment.

• 730 days for the culture interpreters for the future

  The EED has created a development aid training program for 24 - 30 year olds

• GMO - A Threat to Food Sovereignty

  The Church Development Service (EED) and 16 partner organisations from Africa, Asia and Latin America are planning a joint strategy for regulations concerning Genetic Modified Organisms (GMO).

• Social Service Agency has new headquarters in Berlin

  Opening of the office in the German capital combined with the award of the Johann-Hinrich-Wichern Prize