ESSAY: HOW DIVISIONS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST GERMANY PERSIST 30 YEARS AFTER REUNIFICATION
In an article first published on The Conversation, GARETH DALE, of Brunel University London, looks at the causes of continuing divisions in Germany…
Berlin conference recalls role of Christian ecumenical assembly in mobilising dissent ahead of the fall of Berlin Wall
A conference in Berlin has recalled how in 1989 an ecumenical assembly mobilised dissent in the former East Germany in the run-up to a peaceful revolution that led to the collapse of communism and the end of the Berlin Wall. Meeting three times between February, 1988, and April, 1989, the Ecumenical Assembly brought together Protestant, […]
20 years since the Wall fell: In a church near Berlin Wall site, leaders remember in candlelight vigils
Ecumenical News International Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, officials have returned to a church in what was East Berlin, where protests of candlelit prayers helped bring down communism in East Germany. Germany’s political and church leaders marked the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall on 9th November with […]