Posts Tagged ‘Germany’
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U.S. Christians rally around home-schooling family facing deportation
(RNS) When Uwe and Hannelore Romeike’s asylum case is argued Tuesday (April 23) before a panel of federal judges, their lawyers won’t talk about poverty, war, or any of the reasons most immigrants cite in their bid to stay in t...
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Did gun control prevent Jews from stopping the Holocaust?
As gun control moved toward the top of the American agenda after the Dec. 14 massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, gun rights activists began to invoke a curious analogy: the Holocaust.
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Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk dies at 91
CLEVELAND (RNS) Former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk died Saturday (March 17) in Germany, ending nearly 35 years of legal battles with officials in three countries who claimed he was a guard in a Nazi death camp. He was ...
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‘Blessings from above’ mark Reformation Day in Germany
The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD – the German federation of Protestant churches) marked Reformation Day on 31 October with a soaring, whimsical approach to spreading Martin Luther’s message that the grace of God is ...
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Pope Benedict’s praise for Martin Luther give rise to speculation
Pope Benedict XVI’s recent words of praise for Martin Luther, founder of the Protestant reformation, has set abuzz speculation on the possible “rehabilitation” of the spiritual leader as the Lutherans’ 500th anniversary approac...
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Christian, Muslim leaders gather in Germany to pray for Egypt’s Copts
Christian and Muslim leaders came together recently in a Coptic church in Germany to decry the New Year church bombing in Egypt and to pray for its victims. Catholic, Coptic Orthodox and Muslim leaders gathered at the Coptic Or...
German Chancellor tells people to openly support Christian values
In the wake of Muslim immigration issues, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said recently that Germany’s problem is not “too much Islam,” but “too little Christianity,” and said people should give more importance to their Christi...
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Christian girls kidnapped in Yemen are rescued
Two Christian girls, aged 3 and 5 years old, were rescued recently after being held hostage in Yemen for 11 months, according to Compass Direct News . The girls, Lydia hentschel, 3, and Anna, 5, were rescued through a collabora...
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With Papal envoy, legionaries now directly fall under the Vatican
The recently announced plans by the Vatican to designate a papal envoy to head the Legionaries of Christ renders this powerful, conservative Catholic order directly under Vatican control. The Vatican made this move after an eig...
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Christianity ‘still relevant’ for most Europeans, survey finds
Warsaw (ENI). Almost two-thirds of Europeans think Christian values are still relevant to contemporary life and are ready to acknowledge the Church’s efforts to promote them, a recent survey carried out for La Croix daily...
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