Newsletter June 2022 (English)

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Newsletter June 2022

Topic overview:

Editorial
Visit from Ukraine
Visit to Georgia
From the regional groups
50 years since the Leuenberg Agreement
Events
New publication

After travel was restricted in the past two years, international ecumenical meetings are taking place again. No less than three CPCE regional groups met last month and in Vienna we were able to welcome guests on various occasions.

I ask you to pay particular attention to the Call for Papers for the conference "The Leuenberg Agreement Turns 50". Perhaps you would like to encourage someone to participate?

With warm greetings,
Mario Fischer
General Secretary of the CPCE

Visit from Ukraine

Evangelical Lutheran Bishop from Ukraine visits Vienna

For two days Bishop Pavlo Shvarts of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine (DELKU) was a guest at the CPCE office in Vienna on 3 and 4 May 2022. The talks focused both on the current challenges and relief measures in the war situation and on the situation and future of the church.

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Visit to Georgia

A change of bishop took place in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Georgia. The CPCE was present at the transfer of knowledge and contacts and gained a deep insight into the weal and woe of the church under the Caucasus.

From the regional groups

North-West regional group met in Luxembourg

Three years had passed since the member churches of the CPCE in the North-West regional group last met face-to-face. Now, representatives of 13 churches in five countries gathered together in Luxembourg from 27 to 29 April 2022.

South East Europe Regional Group met in Wrocław

The Regional Group Southeast Europe has dealt with the experiences in Poland in its discussions on church and democracy and has formulated its own insights and attitudes in a written document. A visit to the international meeting centre Krzyżowa/Kreisau has made clear how important the aspects of resistance and reconciliation are for the topic.

News from the CRC

The Conference of Rhine Churches (CRC) marked its 60th anniversary in 2021. This makes it the oldest regional group of the CPCE, as its churches were already working together across national borders before the Leuenberg Agreement was signed. The CRC was founded in the Liebfrauenberg church day centre in Alsace, which also hosted the gathering of representatives of the CRC’s member churches in 2022.

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50 years since the Leuenberg Agreement

Call for Papers

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Leuenberg Agreement between the Reformation churches in Europe, the Reformed Theological University of Debrecen (Hungary) is holding an international academic conference from 9 to 11 March 2023.

Papers can be submitted online on the conference website by 22 September 2022.

Events

Forum Young Theology

The "Young Theology Forum" took place in Vienna from 11 to 14 June. 20 young adults from twelve different countries discussed the topic "Protestantism between nationalism and cosmopolitanism". Theses, prayers and sermon impulses for use in worship, a religious education unit and a canon are, besides exchange and networking, the result of the forum.

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New publication

Protestant Pastors in Mauthausen Concentration Camp

On 7 May 2022, the book "Protestant Pastors in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp", commissioned by the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe and the Protestant Church in Austria, was presented in Vienna. It presents the life stories of 37 people from several European countries who were imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp and some of whom were also murdered there, and places them in the unifying context of European Protestantism.

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