Gemeinschaft Evangelischer Kirchen in Europe<\/a> ganz sicher eine gro\u00dfe Bereicherung darstellt.<\/p>\n_______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n
On Sunday of Pentecost, the admission of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Georgia (ELCG) as a direct member church of the CPCE was celebrated in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Reconciliation in Tbilisi. It is the 112th signatory church of the CPCE. Bishop Rolf Bareis and CPCE President Miriam Rose signed the membership agreement. The festive service, which was celebrated in the usual manner in three languages, Georgian, German and Russian, and with significant musical contributions, was followed by a church festival. The CPCE delegation also included Barbara Rudolph (Council), Oliver Engelhardt (Office) and Gerhard Servatius-Depner, who has a special interest in Protestantism in an Orthodox context as part of the Centre for Protestant Theology East.<\/p>\n
The visit took place at an exciting time, as a new law has just been passed in Georgia’s Parliament, that is intended to restrict civil society along Russian lines. Large pro-European protests took place on the streets of Tbilisi. The CPCE delegation was also able to discuss this issue at the representations of the European institutions in Tbilisi.<\/p>\n
The CPCE delegation was able to experience the ELCG as a small but vibrant church, which sends out important messages with its diaconal work, its multicultural liturgy, its ecumenical and interreligious commitment, and will surely enrich the church communion of the CPCE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Am Pfingstsonntag wurde in der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Vers\u00f6hnungskirche in Tiflis die Aufnahme der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Georgien (ELKG) als direkte Mitgliedskirche in die Kirchengemeinschaft der GEKE gefeiert. Sie ist die 112. Signatarkirche der GEKE. Bischof Rolf Bareis und GEKE-Pr\u00e4sidentin Miriam Rose haben die Vereinbarung \u00fcber die Mitgliedschaft unterzeichnet. An den festlichen Gottesdienst, der in \u00fcblicher Weise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,22,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deutsch","category-english","category-featured","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}