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The Protestant church has influenced changes in wider culture in Germany, contributing to the debate around bioethics and stem cell research. [25] The Protestant leadership in Germany is divided on the issue of stem cell research; however, those opposing liberalising laws have characterised it as a threat to the sanctity of human life. [26]
Texas Germans aiming pistols; a Black Texas German is on the far left. Texas Germans engaged with Black people economically and socially in the 1800s. Black Texans interacted much easier with Texas Germans than with Anglo-Texans; Black Freedom colonies shared economic ties with Texas German communities, and maintained cordial relationships. [10]
This, together with "unionism" or the merging of various Protestant groups together, drove many German Lutherans to emigrate. In 1817, Frederick William III of Prussia forced the merging of that country's largest Protestant churches (Lutheran and Reformed) into one single and united Prussian Union of churches . [ 1 ]
At the time, the federation was the largest Protestant church federation in Europe with around 40 million members. [7] Because it was a federation of independent bodies, the Church Union's work was limited to foreign missions and relations with Protestant churches outside Germany, especially German Protestants in other countries.
Economic relations between Germany and the United States are very important. The Transatlantic Economic Partnership between the US and the EU, which was launched in 2007 on Germany's initiative, and the subsequently created Transatlantic Economic Council open up additional opportunities. The US is Germany's principal trading partner outside the ...
Similarly, Protestantism in Germany has long affected education and thus economic performance. In 1816, school attendance was about 50% in catholic regions while it was about 66% in Protestant regions. [27] Higher literacy rates of Protestants can be observed in the 1870s/1880s in Prussia.
Texas had about 20,000 German Americans in the 1850s. They did not form a uniform bloc, but were highly diverse and drew from geographic areas and all sectors of European society, except that very few aristocrats or upper middle class businessmen arrived. In this regard, Texas Germania was a microcosm of the Germania nationwide.
The Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church (German: Selbständige Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche, abbreviated SELK) is a confessional Lutheran church body of Germany.It is a member of the European Lutheran Conference and of the International Lutheran Council (ILC) (of which the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod of North America is also a member).