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In the issue of March 14th 2019 STERN magazine criticizes in a major article “You up there!” that in Germany twelve family clans own as much as the poorer half of the German society together.
Today’s moral guardians are no longer church oriented, but all the more actively on the move. Instead of the Ten Commandments, there are ten thousand commandments, which are constantly changing and increasing. Instead of hell, social and media death now threatens if one does not submit.
The Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Schirrmacher, visited the Evangelical Alliances of Lesotho, Eswatini (Swaziland), South Africa, as well as the emerging Evangelical Alliance in Mozambique for one day each during a trip to the South of Africa.
WEA participated in the General Assembly of Members of the International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development for the first time
The World Evangelical Alliance has appointed Dr. Vitaly Vlasenko as Ambassador for the Russian Orthodox Church.
The two scholars of world religions of WEA responsible for the relations with the leaders of other religions visited mosques in Kuwait and the seven Emirates of the UAE.
During his visit to the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva on the occasion of its 70th anniversary, Pope Francis, along with many kind words, urged the WCC to once again prioritize the task of evangelism and mission.