Word: kirchentag
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...Different Kind. In 1954 Kirchentag was held in East Germany's Leipzig, and in 1956 15,000 East German Protestants got exit permits from the Communists to travel to the Kirchentag in Frankfurt. But this year the Communists had other ideas...
German Evangelical Church Day, known as Kirchentag, and the split that showed was the growing division between West Germany and the Communist East Zone...
...center greeted new arrivals, his small embarrassment at having to give them 30 marks' pocket money, the East Germans' skittishness at the approach of a Western newsman. Both East and West felt the urgency of the widening gap and tried to bridge it with words; white-haired Kirchentag President Reinhold von Thadden-Trieglaff, 68, of West Germany, spoke awkwardly in his opening speech of "the very special naturalness with which we greet our brothers...
...Community of Interest. But if the chasm between the two Germanys was growing, the gap between Catholics and Protestants was closing. In Munich Kirchentag delegates found themselves in the heart of Catholic Germany. It was the largest body of Protestants to descend on Munich since the armies of Gustavus Adolphus captured the city in 1632, and their advent was a great success. Munich's Joseph Cardinal Wendel took in Danish Bishop Frode Beyer and his wife as house guests, and many a Catholic family followed the cardinal's example. All over the city, for the Kirchentag...
...Help Us!" From then on, the Kirchentag was aflame with the thought of freedom. Next day Otto Nuschke was scorched by the flame. "Help us, Brother Nuschke," someone cried, "so that we may speak freely in our churches!" Paunchy old Otto Nuschke ascended the speaker's stand, and his grey Vandyke waggled as he launched into familiar appeals for the banning of atomic weapons, declared that the "materialistic" state was actually trying to help the churches. But no one was listening. As the hostile hubbub in the hall increased, a voice called out: "You have stabbed the church...