08.01.2019

With confidence into the future

“Rhenish in the world” is the name of a new exhibition about the history and relationships of the Rhineland churches in Germany, South Africa and Hong Kong. The traveling exhibition had its opening during the regional synod 2019 in Bad Neuenahr.

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07.01.2019

“Speaking about what we care deeply about!”

Manfred Rekowski, president of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, has given his annual report to the regional synod in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. Christians must speak up more about the things they care deeply about, he challenged delegates.

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07.01.2019

Working well together, on equal footing

The first-ever youth synod of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland concluded on 6 January in Bad Neuenahr with five resolutions for the regional synod beginning the next day. It proved a positive experience. The youth synod had given a “strong signal” for more participation by the younger generation, President Manfred Rekowski explained at the synod’s closing press conference.

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14.12.2018

A premiere

It is a “premiere”, according to President Manfred Rekowski. For the first time in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland there will be a youth synod. It is taking place on 4-6 January 2019. And what is exceptional is that half of its delegates will be youth and half will come from the regional synod.  

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29.10.2018

Action rather than words, help rather than posts

In the Summer of 2017 Dr Christoph Zenses spent three weeks as a doctor on board the Sea-Watch rescue boat, and a year later he also got involved at the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos. These assignments pushed the doctor from Solingen to his limits. But he is planning to return there in 2019.  From conviction. 

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