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Southern Europe
German evangelical church recommends proof of vaccination for services
The Evangelical church of Westfalia recommends that its congregations use the so-called 3G-rule (geimpft, genesen, getestet) for church services. The 3G rule implies that church visitors need to provide evidence of vaccination, a recent recovery from Covid-19 or a negative test to attend a church service. Many visitors to the…
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Southern Europe
Italian church damaged after vandals' raid
Shattered statues, destroyed furniture and dirty walls. The Italian police is entering that mess to trace those responsible. The interior of the small church of Ca ‘de Caroli in Scandiano, 170 kilometres southeast of Milan, is in shambles after vandals raided it, writes local newspaper Gazzetta di Reggio. Thugs beheaded…
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Eastern Europe
Museum director elected as Estonian president
Alar Karis, currently the head of the Estonian National Museum, will become the next president of Estonia. The 62-year-old received 72 out of 101 votes and passed the 68 votes hurdle. The vote took place on Thursday September 2th as a secret ballot in the Riigikogu, the Estonian parliament. Karis…
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Northern Europe
Christian democrats Norway loses seats in parliament
The Norwegian Christian democratic party KrF did not get enough votes to remain a strong parliament party. With 3.8 per cent of the votes, the party finished just below the threshold of 4 per cent, in the parliamentary elections on Monday. Nonetheless was the party able to keep three of…
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Central Europe
Survey: majority of German young people thinks married life is desirable
Being married and having children is the ideal life. That’s the picture that younger people in Germany have, according to a representative survey. In a survey by the Opaschowski Institute for Future Issues (OIZ), 57 per cent of 18- to 34-year-olds supports the statement: “Marriage with a marriage certificate and…
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Central Europe
Czech Clergyman occupies “stolen church”
An assistant pastor occupied the Orthodox Church of St. Wenceslas in the Czech city of Brno due to a dispute between the congregation and their bishop. Jozef Fejsak, who has been the pastor of the church for almost 37 years, locked himself in the church on Monday. According to Czech…
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Central Europe
German Christian Democrat accused of neglecting his constituency for helping persecuted Christians
The German Christian Democrat Heribert Hirte is being criticised for giving too much attention to persecuted Christians and thus neglecting his Cologne constituency. The 63-year old Hirte is a German legal scholar and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He has been serving as a member of the German…
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Southern Europe
Enough support for Italian petition on legalisation of euthanasia for referendum
A referendum on the legalisation of euthanasia in Italy is likely going to happen. Over 750,000 people have signed an initiative for that referendum. The number of signatures exceeds the minimum number of required signatures, 500,000. According to the Italian newspaper la Republicca, over 500,000 signatures were collected on the…
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Central Europe
Diplomatic tensions between Israel and Poland over Holocaust properties
Israel recalled its ambassador to Poland on Sunday, August 15th. The reason for this is the approval by Polish President Andrzej Duda of legislation limiting the ability of Jews to recover property seized by Nazis in Poland during World War II. According to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Israel's decision…
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Northern Europe
Swedish priest may lose right to abstain from consecration gay marriage
In the new General Assembly of the Church of Sweden, there will be more debate about the priests' right to abstain from marrying people of the same sex. That's the expectation of the Swedish daily Dagen. Suppose individual priests in the Swedish church are convinced that the traditional marriage of…
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