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Churches must be global citizens addressing issues that can only be tackled at the worldwide level, Rev. Martin Junge ( photo ), general secretary of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) told Lutheran leaders from Europe.
In a keynote...
22.05.2012 10:53
European Church Leaders Meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic
Churches must be global citizens addressing issues that can only be tackled at the worldwide level, Rev. Martin Junge ( photo ), general secretary of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) told Lutheran leaders from Europe.
In a keynote...
15.05.2012 17:12
Partnership meeting in the Kačaba
On Tuesday, 1 st March, the representatives of the Church district of Bayreuth, of the West-Bohemian presbytery and of the synodal council met in Pilsen for a continuation of the discussions about cross-border cooperation in this region. The...
02.05.2012 16:50
Visiting the Lusatian Sorbs in Bautzen
Four representatives of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren met in Bautzen (Germany) with Jan Malink, pastor of one of the ten parishes in which Sorbian-German church services take place, and Trudla Malinkowa, the chief editor of the...
15.03.2012 11:26
Five hundred trees worldwide and in the Luther Garden
„Even if I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I still would plant an apple tree today!“ This saying, ascribed to Dr. Martin Luther has inspired people and Churches for hundreds of years to plant one, or many, trees. Not always an apple...
The Church formed in the year 1918, through the unification of the Protestant churches of the Lutheran and Reformed confessions, which were permitted only after the harsh counter-reformation movement, which lasted from 1620 until the issuing of the Edict of Toleration in 1781. However, the ECCB has deeper roots in the Czech reformation: in the Utraquist Hussite Church (1431-1620) and in the Unity of Brethren (Moravian) Church (1457-1620). The ECCB has about 120,000 members in more than 250 local congregations, which are broken down into 14 seniorates (presbyteries) throughout the Czech Republic.