Word: ekids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Defensive. Stocky, 69-year-old Bishop Otto Dibelius, chairman of the Council of Evangelical Churches (EKID) in both the Western and Eastern zones of Germany, was as quick to react as he had been against the aggressions of the Nazis. He promptly called on Otto Grotewohl, Minister-President of the Eastern German government, and presented documented evidence of Communist oppression of clergymen, church welfare groups and devout laymen. Grotewohl dismissed Dibelius' evidence as "insufficient." Other Soviet officials suggested that clergymen who did not support the Communists' "national front" should be severely punished. Bishop Dibelius' next move...
...Sunday services last week, a statement issued by the Berlin and Brandenburg province of EKID was read from the pulpits of Protestant churches in Berlin and the Soviet zone. "Ceaselessly, the cries of our members come to the church leadership," the letter said. "They say, 'Help us! We are forced to say things that we in truth cannot...
...sprawling colony of hospitals and asylums that for nearly a century has been a center of German religious charities-120 leading Calvinists, Lutherans and Unionists gathered last week from every part of Germany. Representing Germany's 35 million Protestants, they were holding the first regular meeting of EKID (Evangelical Church in Germany), under a brand-new ecclesiastical constitution...
| 1 |