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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]
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).
Black Texans and Texas Germans had a strong political bond, and supported the same political parties. This bond became increasingly crucial, especially during the height of anti-German sentiment in the 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan began persecuting Texas Germans, seeking to eliminate the Texas German ethnicity in Texas. The Black-German alliance ...
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.
German Protestant missionaries (5 C, 54 P) ... Presidents of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (8 P) S. German Seventh-day Adventists (1 C, 3 P) U.
Texas Wendish Heritage Museum Texas Wendish Bell. The Texas Wends or Wends of Texas are a group of people descended from a congregation of 558 Sorbian/Wendish people under the leadership and pastoral care of John Kilian (Sorbian languages: Jan Kilian, German: Johann Killian) who emigrated from Lusatia (part of modern-day Germany) to Texas in 1854. [1]
Stormtroopers holding German Christian propaganda during the Church Council elections on 23 July 1933, at St. Mary's Church, Berlin. The German Evangelical Church (German: Deutsche Evangelische Kirche) was a successor to the German Protestant Church Confederation from 1933 until 1945.
The Church of St. Anne (German: St. Anna-Kirche) is a medieval Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Augsburg, Germany. Originally built in 1321, it has undergone several significant renovations since, and is notable for its elaborate interior decoration, and its role in Protestant-Catholic relations in Germany.