EKD-Bulletin 04/2000

• Imprint
• Editorial

  On new foundation

• "One in Christ - Churches on the way to more fellowship"

  Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany have consulted for six days

• New ways in ecumenism

  Representatives report

• Evangelical Church declares solidarity with the Jews

  Remembrance of the Jewish pogroms

• Evangelical Church will help forced labourers unbureaucratically

  Payment can begin

• EKD Synod passes another economy budget: 3.7% less
• Biotechnology: "don't overstep the limits"
• Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace

  Bonhoeffer film is now available as a video

• "The future of the church will be ecumenical"

  Reactions to "Dominus Iesus"

• EKD calls for patience

  10th anniversary of German reunification

• Against Anti-Semitism in Germany

  Protestant Church expresses solidarity with Jewish communities

• "Improve the legal status of homosexual partnerships"

  EKD rejects Social Democrat and Green Party Bill

• EXPO 2000 - World Religions' Day

  "One of the most impressive events"

• EXPO 2000 - The engagement of the Churches

  1.8 million visitors in the Christ Pavilion

• EXPO 2000 - "A good experience"

  Witnessed by an ecumenical visitor

• Volunteers are "partners in our joint venture"

  VELKD General Synod in Schneeberg

• VELKD "Family of Catechisms"

  Helping children and adults to understand the Gospel better

• EKD calls for engagement in South Africa

  Kock proposes Aids campaign

• "Committee for Church History" is set up

  Dr. Heinrich Wittram elected as chairman

• EKD Church Office issues invitations to a conference of Eastern Churches

  Lively partnerships and contact work

• Dialogue with Rumanian Orthodox Church

  Ninth meeting in Herrnhut

• Small Church with new ideas

  EKD delegation in Siebenbürgen

• Churches launch "Foreign Neighbours' Week"

  "The dignity of human beings is inviolable"

• Environmentally friendly production methods in agriculture

  EKD Advisory Commission produces study

• EKD employment award given to eight companies

  "Work plus" for exemplary achievements

• Witnesses of a better world

  Christian martyrs of the twentieth century

• WCC Central Committee to meet in Berlin
• Exchange of views between EKD and French Protestants
• EKD Human Rights Commissioner at UN-Mission in Haiti

  Focus: Culture of peace

• Konrad von Bonin is new head of the Protestant Development Service (EED)
• Former EKD President Walter Hammer has died
• New commissioner of EKD Council

  Bishop Wollenweber appointed

• Second woman bishop in North Elbia

  Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter succeeds Bishop Kohlwage

• New director at the EKD Office in Brussels

  Sabine von Zanthier succeeds Heidrun Tempel

• Where the threads of ecumenical relations come together

  EMW celebrates 25th anniversary

• "Dienste in Übersee" is a success story

  40 years of "Service Overseas"

• Training and promotion of women

  "Bread for the World" grants 6.4 million Marks for 26 projects

• Church aid agencies want more development aid

  Halting the downward trend

• The Churches are looking for a new role

  An EKD Council delegation visited partners in Namibia and South Africa

• Kock: Attacks demonstrate spiritual destruction

  Extracts from the EKD Council report

• Signals from Rome

  Statement by the Chairman of the EKD Council, Präses Manfred Kock, on the Declaration "Dominus Iesus"

  issued by the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

• The awareness of belonging together

  Statement by EKD Council Chairman Manfred Kock on the tenth anniversary of German reunification