CPCE President Thomas Wipf elected as Moderator of the European Council of Religious Leaders At its annual congress currently meeting in Sarajevo, the European Council of Religious Leaders (ECRL) chose the President of the Community of Protestant Churches in...
Reformation Jubilee 2017: A Celebration with European Dimensions On the occasion of the installation of Margot Kässmann in Berlin as the Ambassador of the German Evangelical Church for the Reformation Jubilee in 2017, the President of...
First Conference Meeting of the Protestant Synods in Europe “Synods an innovative force in the Protestant Churches” Last weekend members of the protestant synods as the parliaments of more than 50 churches from 17 European...
Education for the Future between Qualification and Orientation From 26-28 September 2011, at the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing, a consultation of the CPCE was held (in cooperation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria) on...
European Churches commit themselves to continue the dialogue and reflections on Human Dignity and Human Rights From 9-11 December, some 60 representatives of Christian churches from 14 European countries met in the Protestant Academy, Bad Boll, Germany, to discuss the different...
Meeting the Crisis On the eve of the EU summit in Brussels, from which far-reaching measures are expected against the financial and debt crisis, the Presidium of CPCE recalls in a...
As from July 2011 the responsibility for Church Relationships and Press and Public Relations of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) will be in new hands On 1st July 2011 the Revd Dr Bernd Jaeger became the new church relations representative of the CPCE in the administrative office in Vienna. A native of Lübeck, he is...
Bünker: EU Danube Strategy offers various Possibilities for Development During its meeting on 23rd and 24th June the Council of Europe approved the “EU Strategy for the Danube Region” which had already been accepted by the 27 EU states in...
Dialogue with the European Baptist Federation (EBF) After a first consultation in the year 2000, the general assembly of the LCF decided to continue the dialogue with the EBF with further conversations in order to engross...
The Protestant Understanding of Ministry, Ordination and Episkopé The understanding of ministry, ordination and spiritual leadership of the church (episkopé) is one of the core questions in ecumenical conversation. This applies not...