Press Release Archive 2015

Happy New Year! That is what we have been calling to one another lately. That means - in spite of our personal problems or the worrying state of the world - we look forward to a new start. It is makes sense not to let the old year elapse without...

Following the attacks and hostage-taking in Paris on the evening of 13 November 2015; Cardinal Reinhard Marx, chair of the German Bishops’ Conference and Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, have...

The second session of the 12th Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) solemnly concluded with a service in the Church of our Lady in Bremen today. Ulrich Fischer, the former bishop of the Protestant Church in Baden, preached on James 3:1-12....

By 118 of 125 votes cast, Annette Kurschus has been elected deputy chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). Synod president Irmgard Schwaetzer was the first to congratulate her. “With Annette Kurschus we again have a woman at...

This morning, Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, received 124 of 125 votes cast by the Synod and Church Conference of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), currently convening in Bremen. Congratulating...

A “heart-felt gift symbolising the bonds with all Protestant Christians in Wittenberg and the whole of Germany”  - that was how Bishop Heinrich Bedord-Strohm, chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), described the...