Topic overview:

• Editorial
• 50th Anniversary of the Leuenberg Agreement
  
• 2024 General Assembly
• Young Theologians in Communion
• Events
  

The 4th  meeting of representatives of Protestant synods was organised by the Evangelical Church in Baden in Bad Herrenalb under the sign of 50 years of Leuenberg Agreement. The central question was the role of the church in today's Europe. More information can be found here:

The Protestant churches want and should have their own voice in European issues. Church representatives emphasised this on Thursday, 5 October 2023, at a ceremony on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Leuenberg Agreement in the Johannes a Lasco Library in Emden.At the event the former CPCE President Prof. Dr Michael Beintker was awarded the anniversary medal.

Under the heading "Thinking Diversity", the Evangelischer Bund invited delegates to its General Assembly in Ulm. From 5 to 7 October, theological reflections on the Leuenberg Agreement and church communion were presented and discussed.

On 16 January 2024 the steward programme of the CPCE General Assembly in Sibiu/Hermannstadt will be announced. Students and graduates (18 - 28 years) interested in church issues are invited to apply. The programme itself is scheduled between 22 August and 3 September 2024. Here, young people will not only be assigned to practical work, but they will also have the chance to get to know the ecumenical movement, the region and the Assembly topics in a workshop component. Enquiries can already be made at:

October 8-11 marked the latest conference of CPCE’s Young Theologians in Communion. A group of 16 young theologians from across Europe met in Leipzig to discuss current CPCE events, discuss and give updates on the working processes they have been engaged with, and learn more about Leipzig and the Church during the communist era in East Germany.

The National Council of Churches in Germany, the Johann Adam Möhler Institute for Ecumenics in Paderborn and the ecumenical Institute in Bensheim cordially invite you to three evenings in the digital space to reflect on the ecumenical significance of the Leuenberg Agreement on the occasion of its 50th Anniversary. 

Young Forum Anglicanism: November 17-19, 2023 in Berlin

The English-Language seminar of the Ecumenical Institute in Bensheim is mainly directed at students, young graduates, and people who work in the field of ecumenism.

On November 3, 2023, the Evangelischer Bund invites you to the study day "The Leuenberg Agreement in a Digitalized World" in Soest, Germany. In addition to lectures, you can expect a workshop, a tour of the Weisenkirche and the awarding of the university prize.