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In the issue of March 14th 2019 STERN magazine criticizes in a major article “You up there!” that in Germany twelve family clans own as much as the poorer half of the German society together.
Today’s moral guardians are no longer church oriented, but all the more actively on the move. Instead of the Ten Commandments, there are ten thousand commandments, which are constantly changing and increasing. Instead of hell, social and media death now threatens if one does not submit.
WEA participated in the General Assembly of Members of the International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development for the first time
Thomas Schirrmacher, Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance for Theological Concerns, was keynote speaker at the 32nd General Assembly of the Liberia Council of Churches.
In the following, Johanna Schirrmacher reports on a project trip which belongs to projects financed or co-financed by Giving Hands gGmbH.
“Speak freely! Confess freely!” This was the motto under which around 100 Christian lawyers met at the 2019 Federal Conference of “Christ und Jurist” [“Christian and Jurist”] (German Christian Legal Society).
World Evangelical Alliance establishes WEA Sustainability Center in Bonn (Germany)
Corruption is neither a private problem nor a peccadillo. Corruption can be deadly, for instance if poor quality parts are installed in planes, if development funds for the hungry are diverted for private use, or if the drinking water supply is overpriced due to corruption and as a result the poor can not afford it. Corruption affects everyone, or at least a great many, even if they do not usually immediately notice or know it.