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Most of the world's Protestant leaders will come to Evanston. Among them: Germany's Bishop Otto Dibelius, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Norway's Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Bishops G. Bromley Oxnam and Henry Knox Sherrill and Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr from the U.S.* But Dr. Visser 't Hooft was hopeful that delegates from the Iron Curtain churches would be there, too. Said he: "It's a way to emphasize Christian fellowship, and some of these churches have a great deal to give...
...make peace with Bishop Otto Dibelius and the Evangelical Church, to which most of East Germany's 18 million people belong. In a formal pact, the Communists agreed to end persecution of church leaders and youth groups, to void or review jail terms handed out to about 20 pastors. Among other things, the Communists promised to recognize the church's right of free assembly, pay state subsidies to churches, return confiscated church property, and work out plans to restore religious lessons to Soviet zone classrooms...
Last week the East German government formally banned the Junge Gemeinde as a sabotage organization directed by the Western powers. Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius promptly hit back with a proclamation that "the battle against the Junge Gemeinde is a battle against the church." Berlin's Catholic Bishop Wilhelm Weskamm accused the government of going "over into open infringement of the rights of the church." Protestant and Catholic churchmen all over Germany launched outspoken counterattacks...
...Bishop Dibelius . . . has seen clearly that Communism is a new religion, and that its spread will depend on its ability to overcome the existing religions . . . [He] realizes that the only way Christianity can prove its superiority will consist in its ability to oppose Communism by means of an organized religious fellowship...
...Your delineation of the character and worth of Bishop Otto Dibelius accords so fully with the information and insights which we have gained through a variety of contacts with him and his writings . . . There is something exhilarating about standing up to external foes of the sort Bishop Dibelius has been meeting head on in more recent years. In 1945 he dared to confront the wasting, undramatic and wearying-to-the-marrowbone enemies: insensibility, indifference and malice toward any expression of hope. To the bled-white spirits of his countrymen he dared to cry, "Lift up your hearts in prayer...