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	Evangelical Church in Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg de:Evangelische Kirche in Berlin-Brandenburg
		Evangelical Church of the Province of Saxony de:Evangelische Kirche der Kirchenprovinz Sachsen
		Evangelical Church in Thuringia de:Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Thüringen
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany (525 words)

	Evangelical Church in Germany
		The Evangelical Church in Germany (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutchland) is the institutional form chosen by a community of 24 Lutheran, Reformed and United regional churches.
		The Evangelical Church of the Hesse Electorate and Waldeck
		The Evangelical Church of the Province of Saxony
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/no/North_Elbian_Evangelical_Church.html (144 words)

	State religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Church of Ireland was disestablished in 1869 and the Church of England was disestablished in Wales in 1920, becoming the Church in Wales rather than the Church of Wales.
		Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelical Church of Baden
		Through this arrangement, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland lost its position as a state church but gained a constitutional status as a national church alongside with the Finnish Orthodox Church, whose position however is not codified in the constitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/State_church (2420 words)

	State church
		Its largest surviving offshoots are the Free Church of Scotland[?] and the United Free Church of Scotland[?].
		State churches tend to enjoy the allegiance of the majority of their country; however much of this support is little more than nominal, with many members of the church rarely attending it.
		After independence in 1917 Finland gave State Church status to both the Church of Finland (successor to the Church of Sweden in Finland) and the Finnish Orthodox Church (successor to the Russian Orthodox Church in Finland).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/es/Establishment_of_religion.html (442 words)

	Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mecklenburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Church headquarters are in the beautifully situated city of Schwerin, the former seat of the duke of Meklenburg.
		The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Meklenburg is part of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD), which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998.
		This union of churches is made up of Lutheran churches in Bavaria, Brunswick, Hanover, Mecklenburg, the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Churches of Saxony, of Schaumburg-Lippe and in Thuringia.
	www.elca.org /countrypackets/germany/mecklenburg.html (560 words)

	Church Twinning in Europe and the UK - European Church Partnership
		Membership in the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria decreased by 3.7 percent to 322,321 members, whereas that of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania fell by around three percent, to 14,606 members.
		The Evangelical Lutheran Free Church in Germany, not an LWF member church, recorded the highest decline in percentage terms with 26 percent less members, reducing the total to 1,470.
		The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony had 2.3 percent less members with a total of 895,000, whereas the Evangelical Church of Pomerania had 115,000 members, a six percent decrease.
	www.church-twinning.org /lwf.html (665 words)

	Member Churches, Associate Member Churches and National Council Bodies
		Evangelical Church of the Congo [Republic of Congo]
		Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia
		Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga [Methodist Church in Tonga]
	wcc-coe.org /wcc/who/mch-e.html (890 words)

	LWF News - North Elbian Lutheran Church Invites Partner Churches to Discuss Structural Reform
		The church had shown its vulnerability and opened its doors wide, for the first time during their over 100 years of shared history, marking the beginning of a church partnership on an equal footing, he said.
		The greatest challenge for the church, according to the partners, was that of accommodating the increasing longing of people for faith and pastoral care.
		The North Elbian church is currently confronted with the greatest financial crisis in its history.
	www.lutheranworld.org /News/LWI/EN/1702.EN.html (774 words)

	Religioscope > Archives > Total number of Lutherans worldwide climbs to nearly 66 million
		The highest regional growth (9.3 percent) was recorded among churches in Africa, where an additional 1,115,141 Lutherans were registered, pushing the number of Lutherans on the continent up from 11,953,068 in 2001 to 13,068,209 by the end of 2003.
		The country’s biggest Lutheran church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover registered the highest decline in the last two years, 166,241, pushing its membership down to 3,127,000 by the end of 2003.
		Membership in the LWF-member church, the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Brazil, rose by 1,085 to reach 715,085 while that in the non-LWF church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil, increased by 2,620 to the current 222,508.
	www.religioscope.info /article_265.shtml (1845 words)

	Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saxony
		The characteristics and history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony vary from region to region.
		The regional differences within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony are reflected in the organization of the church into districts which are largely self-governing and have their own agencies.
		The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony is part of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD), which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998.
	www.elca.org /countrypackets/germany/saxony.html (558 words)

	Vereinigte Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Deutschlands (VELKD)
		Through its member churches, which also belong to the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) [Evangelical Church in Germany], the VELKD is linked closely with the EKD and views itself as a part of this fellowship.
		The Church Council consists of the Presiding Bishop, his or her deputy, a further member of the Bishops' Conference, the President of the General Synod and nine additional members elected by the General Synod from their number.
		The North Elbian Church is represented at the Bishops' Conference by a total of three (one male and two females) bishops.
	www.velkd.de /velkd/english.html (2484 words)

	Religioscope - > More than 65 million Lutherans worldwide
		Membership of the largest Lutheran church in the world—the Church of Sweden—remained unchanged at 7,399,915, while that of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, the third largest in the world, increased slightly to 4,606,543.
		The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Slovak Republic has 372,858, an increase of roughly 13 percent.
		Membership of these churches remained mostly stable, except for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil, which keeps in loose contact with the LWF and grew by around 2,000 members to reach 219,888.
	www.religioscope.com /notes/2002/069_lutherans.htm (890 words)

	Pastor Zip's International Lutheran Web Links
		Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil
		The largest Lutheran church body in Canada, the ELCIC was formed in 1986 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (which had been the Canadian congregations of the American Lutheran Church until 1966) and the Canada Section of the Lutheran Church in America.
		In 1979 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan (until the 1967 Six-Day War the Lutheran congregations were all in Jordanian territory) became independent of the EKD by electing the first Palestinian Lutheran Bishop.
	homepage.mac.com /pastorzip/internationallinx.html (4428 words)

	Spero News: Women bishops discuss advancing secularization
		While clearly stating that the grim financial situation was a heavy burden for the German churches, she admitted that the church crisis was not just finance-related.
		They are the emotional and social engines of society, of the church and in our personal lives." Despite their old age their value and meaning still endured, lasting for longer than any money in the world could, she stressed.
		Having been a state church under the influence of state bodies for past centuries, it is now independent and has more freedom for own decisions, for example, on the choice of books of worship and the appointment of new vicars, deans and bishops, Bishop Caroline Krook, Stockholm Diocese explained.
	www.speroforum.com /site/print.asp?idarticle=1642 (413 words)

	Evangelical Church in Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		The Evangelical Church in Germany (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutchland abbreviated by EKD) is a federation of 24 Lutheran Reformed and United churches in their respective It is therewith a uniting church body several protestant denominations.
		The German term evangelisch rather corresponds to the English term Protestant than to the narrower direct translation evangelical since it is a federation of churches rather than one evangelical church.
		German Protestant church structures are based on federal at all levels.
	www.freeglossary.com /North_Elbian_Evangelical_Church (403 words)

	thelutheran.org \| April 1998 Worldscan
		• The North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Swiss Protestant Church Federation adopted the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification between Lutherans and Roman Catholics.
		Member churches were asked to respond by May 1, and the LWF Council will make its final decision on approval of the declaration at its June 8-17 meeting in Geneva.
		Church activities were halted from 1966 to 1979 due to the Cultural Revolution, but the building reopened in August 1979.
	www.thelutheran.org /article/article.cfm?article_id=1822 (1585 words)

	wfn.org \| North Elbian church takes positive stand on Joint Declaration
		Important step toward improved ecumenical relations RENDSBURG, Germany/GENEVA, Feb. 19, 1998 (lwi) - With an overwhelming majority the synod of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (NEK) adopted the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" between Lutherans and Catholics at its meeting in Rendsburg Feb. 7.
		The North Elbian church voiced the expectation that the Joint Declaration would have concrete consequences for ordinary ecumenical life locally and "pave the way for deeper community in Word, sacraments and service".
		Only a few days before the North Elbian Synod's decision, over 140 professors of theology from all parts of Germany had warned against adopting the Joint Declaration.
	www.wfn.org /1998/02/msg00024.html (479 words)

	EKD: Protestant Church in Germany - - Talk with others
		The chronological coincidence of Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, and the Christian period of Advent was taken as the occasion to invite one another.
		Church parishes invited their Muslim guests to Advent celebrations and mosque communities invited their Christian guests to Iftar, the breaking of the fast every evening.
		At first, it was only the North-Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church on the Christian side, but in the meantime, the Catholic Church has also become involved.
	www.ekd.de /print.php?file=/bulletin/bulletin_4_2003_34.html (515 words)

	thelutheran.org \| World Scan
		The North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church, supporting women's ordination in its partner church in Latvia, adopted a resolution stating that exclusion from the pastoral ministry is a humiliation of women and is incompatible with the fact that men and women are made in the image of God.
		While the ordination of women is possible in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia, the church's archbishop, Janis Vanags, suspended this pastoral act in 1993.
		The leadership of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria said its members disapprove of Vienna pastor Erwin Neumann's blessing of a lesbian couple and asked him "to await and respect the syn od's decision." There won't be any disciplinary measures because Neumann has, under protest, accepted this commitment.
	www.thelutheran.org /article/article.cfm?article_id=794 (551 words)

	wfn.org \| North Elbian Lutheran Church Invites Partner Churches to
		churches in its planned structural reform for the first time.
		Forty representatives from the church, the synod, church
		Cilevica, spokesperson for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia.
	www.wfn.org /2005/07/msg00035.html (722 words)

	NEWS of EELC Consistory
		Among the invited guests are Arnold Rüütel, the President of the Republic of Estonia, and Horst Köhler, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, who has arrived in Estonia for a two-day visit together with his wife.
		Tartu Jaani Church is one of the most significant retained monumets of the medieval architecture in Estonia.
		The church was almost completely destroyed during the offensive of the Soviet troops in August 1944.
	www.eelk.ee /eelk_uudised/news.php?id=34 (200 words)

	Lutherans
		Membership in African Lutheran Churches Increases by More Than 1 Million The highest regional growth (9.3 percent) was recorded among churches in Africa, where an additional 1,115,141 Lutherans were registered, pushing the number of Lutherans on the continent up from 11,953,068 in 2001 to 13,068,209 by the end of 2003.
		We in the church see it as a re-awakening of the African spirit which was crushed by slavery and colonialism, and ownership-taking of our Christian and biblical heritage [that was] received in very difficult circumstances and situations," remarked the bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia (ELCRN).
		Further Membership Decrease among Lutheran Churches in Germany The number of Lutheran Christians in Germany stood at 13,263,869 by the end of 2003, a decrease of 385,445 in the past two years.
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /lutherans.htm (1822 words)

	EKD-Bulletin
		The General Synod of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD) at their conference on 16 - 19 October 1999 in Braunschweig, elected by a large majority, Dr. Hans Christian Knuth, the Bishop of the church district Schleswig of the North-Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church to be the Presiding Bishop of the VELKD.
		Roland Hoffmann (Eisenach), the Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thüringen, was confirmed for a further period in office as his deputy.
		The draft was formulated in a widespread discussion process in the churches and parishes.
	www.ekd.de /bulletin/499/49924.html (396 words)

	Statement on Cultural Aspects of Dialogue
		At the suggestion of and in cooperation with the Conference of European Churches (CEC), the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) held a consultation, from 22 to 25 November 1999 in Hanover, Germany, on the theme of "Cultural Aspects of Orthodox-Protestant Conversations and Encounters".
		We were especially struck by the moving account of the situation of the churches today in the former Yugoslavia given by Professor Pribislav Simic of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
		We realised again that in different churches the concept of nation has a completely different content, culturally, historically and even theologically; that the churches in Europe have different attitudes towards their own nation, and that some of these include nationalistic tendencies.
	www.cec-kek.org /English/hannovere.htm (1112 words)

	Total Number of Lutherans Reach 66 Million Worldwide \| Christianpost.com- Christian News Online , Christian World News
		GENEVA - Membership among Lutheran churches in the last two years increased by 570,000 putting the number of Lutherans worldwide up to nearly 66 million by the end of 2003.
		The 136 LWF member churches, including eleven recognized congregations and one recognized council, totaled nearly 62.3 million (62,297,025) people by the end of 2003, compared to nearly 61.7 million in 2001.
		Membership in the LWF-member church, the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Brazil, rose by 1,085 to reach 715,085 while that in the non-LWF church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazi, increased by 2,620 to the current 222,508.
	www.christianpost.com /article/church/717/full/total.number.of.lutherans.reach.66.million.worldwide/search.htm (1658 words)

	Our Hosts - The Lutheran World Federation
		The secret ballot vote was between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) and North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany.
		That all the member churches of the LWF will be coming to Canada is a great opportunity for the host church as well as for the guest member churches, Sartison said in an interview with Lutheran World Information (LWI) shortly after the Council's decision.
		The other LWF member churches in North America include the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Abroad (Canada) with 12,000 members, and two U.S. churches, the 5.1 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Lithuanian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Diaspora, with 5,000 members.
	www.lwf-assembly.org /ourhosts.html (526 words)

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