German Protestant urges Christians and Muslims to cooperate
On a visit to Muslim-majority Turkey, Germany’s senior Protestant leader has called on Christian and Islamic theologians to find ways to share insights from their Holy Scripture.
On a visit to Muslim-majority Turkey, Germany’s senior Protestant leader has called on Christian and Islamic theologians to find ways to share insights from their Holy Scripture.
While the German Protestant church is losing members, and steadily closes churches, Islam in Germany is growing. But within the Protestant church resistance against new Mosques emerges.
The President of the church office of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), Hermann Barth, opposes a common prayer of Christians and Muslims. In doing so, Barth argued, important traditions would get lost.