EKD-Bulletin 04/1998

• Imprint
• Editorial

  What unites us is more than what separates us

• Keyword: EKD Synod
• Federal President Herzog:

  "The family is the greatest civil movement"

• "Time to rejoin the Church":

  EKD Chairman's report to the Synod

• EKD Social Service Agency: Introduce elements of basic social insurance

  "No commercialisation of the welfare system"

• Financial pressure will remain for a long time

  EKD loses a third of its finances in six years

• EKD calls for world-wide strengthening of women's rights

  Campaign "Churches in solidarity with Women" must be continued

• Evangelical Church will concentrate its development work

  "Bread for the World" remains independent for the time being

• Czech-German working group issues publication

  On understanding between Czechs and Germans

• Churches in Germany plead for poor countries to be relieved of their debts

  Joint Statement by the EKD and the catholic German Bishops' Conference in October

• "It is a case of making amends"

  Test of ecumenical unity

• EKD helps "Churches in need"

  Foundation set up to save historic churches

• Dialogue in Bucharest

  EKD and Rumanian Orthodox Church

• Bulgarian Orthodox Church should remain a member of WCC

  EKD Bishop Koppe visits Sofia

• Manfred Kock praises behaviour of political parties

  EKD Council Chairman: Keep Sundays and public holidays special

• "The wording of the oath is not an expression of a particular relation to God"

  Discussion about the oath of office of the new German Chancellor

• Kock: Real aim is the preservation of human dignity

  Ecumenical service for the constitution of the new German Parliament

• epd Editor-in-Chief retires
• Eberhard Cherdron new church president in the Palatinate
• Johannes Roscher new EKD Commissioner for Unemployment Issues
• Former EKD Chairman, Helmut Class, has died

  "Bishop of reconciliation" was also a "diaconal Bishop"

• 350th anniversary of Peace of Westphalia celebrated

  The end of 30 years' religious war was the beginning of a new order in Europe

• EKD Council Chairman calls for more ecumenical unity

  50th anniversary of the World Council of Churches

• "Foreign Neighbours' Week" - 3,000 events

  Churches criticise "bar-room mentality"

• Invite your Neighbours

  An initiative of the Council of Christian Churches in Germany

• VELKD: Economy Budget and Alternative Service Book

  "Not disheartened in spite of disappointment over Declaration on Justification"

• Meissen Commission meets near Magdeburg

  Exchange visits from delegations planned

• Koppe welcomes German Armed Forces aid flights to Sudan

  The distress of the people there is indescribable

• A total of six new Protestant schools founded

  Success of the Protestant School Foundation in the EKD

• Manfred Kock welcomes Nobel Peace Prize

  Two politicians from Northern Ireland chosen for award

• Why is there a Lutheran Church in Jerusalem?

  100 years Church of the Redeemer

• EKD and Central Council of Jews meet in Hannover

  Kock and Bubis concerned about xenophobia

• EKD Bishop for Foreign Affairs visits the Volkswagen factory in Mexico

  Koppe: Pastoral care for Germans abroad is in demand

• Steady growth of Chinese churches

  EMW Assembly in Rastede

• A present for the world's churches

  EMW and Basel Mission publish collection of liturgies

• "Guidelines on Communication

  Technologies" published

• EKD Social Service Agency celebrates its 150th anniversary

  Federal President Herzog: Volunteers give the work particular credibility

• Bananas: Fair trading for people and nature

  "Bread for the World" is committed

• Church information on the Internet
• "Bread for the World's" 40th campaign is dedicated to children

  Motto: "Give the children a chance"

• EKD and Free Churches issue memorandum on diaconia

  Protestant churches in favour of "competition for more compassion"

• 50 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  EKD Synod passes resolutions

• Memorandum on diaconia calls for continuity and renewal in social work

  Reflection on diaconia's mission and role in society

• "International Debt - an ethical challenge"

  Joint Statement of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany and the catholic German Bishops' Conference