Word: kirchentag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Reinold von Thadden, 60, was in the U.S. for a month-long lecture tour sponsored by the National Council of Churches. He brought evidence of revived Christian zeal among German laymen. The German Evangelical (Protestant) Church Congress-the Kirchentag-which Thadden founded 2½ years ago, has become the strongest organization of Protestant laymen in Europe. More than 300,000, from Eastern as well as Western Germany, attended its Berlin rally last summer (TIME, July 23). "The layman," Thadden told a Chicago audience last week, "is ... in fact the essential interpreter of the Christian message in the battlefield...
More than 200,000 people streamed into Berlin last week from all over Germany to attend a five-day Kirchentag (church day) assembly of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. It was the first large-scale meeting of East and West Germans since the Russians divided the country...
...Said Dr. Reinold von Thadden-Trieglaff, president of the Kirchentag: "We do not want to hide the fact that the difficulties of conscience of those who are not allowed to proclaim their faith in full freedom weigh heavily upon us." ¶ Said Pastor Martin Niemböller, pointedly: "We must not extend brotherhood only to those with the point of view we like, but to all. We must understand even hardened criminals...
...Said a Kirchentag resolution: "Our children ... do not belong ... to the state first...