tv Fath Matters Deutsche Welle January 8, 2023 3:30pm-4:00pm CET
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because it was composed in tanzania, one of the few hymns of african origin. and the german lutheran hymnal, tanzania is where booth kona was born. the daughter of a missionary, when she left africa, she was too young to have any personal memories, but now aged 92, she wants to see tanzania for herself. ah, ah! shoot a nice souvenir! actually it has a few crack split still sounds good. allah! he cleaned the man oh,
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the retired teacher is confident about making the journey playing the piano and gardening have kept her young. she says what kona taught music and religion to generations of children. and she continues to offer her services in the parish to prepare for her trip. she is reading documents and letters of her father auto haga, stored in the archives of the lutheran missionary society. shortly after completing his theology studies, pastor hogan, i was sent to africa. the german colonial period and east africa was already a thing of the past. with the end of the 1st world war in 1918, the victorious allies were mandated by the league of nations to administer the german overseas territories. most of the german missionaries were forced to leave. but 10 years later, the envoys of the berlin based bethel mission returned among them. otto ha, gonna in jesus service as a 1927 film put it souvenirs
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from africa. arnold's corona's only link with tanzania. she has fond memories of her parents talking about africa on the landscape. the people the simple life guns i take her he did, they told us about everyday life in africa yet. and i for instance, they had a boy who helped them in the kitchen. and as i, unlike in europe, even fetching water, another aarons took much more time than in a gym and household me aside financial and we always listened with great interest. if 5 out omby missouri inch, we'll see it so good. on the day before, she's due to leave woot packs, photos, and documents from her family's time in africa to give the tanzanian parish. she herself doesn't have any personal memories of the country. when her mother became gravely ill, the family had to leave. when home was just 2 years old. of
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the essence, i love my. i photographed my birth certificate for the 1st page, did you? it was issued in blue cobra or at that time the country was administered by the british. so its in english. okay. english all squished dude. hasty cure, lynn is the church. my father built portals. then photos of us girls. i'm r o here again with a group of black and white children. you don't teach at home to mostly my father's school house, who will father with his students who run before leaving for the british mandated territory. pastor auto ha, gonna had to take an english course. he also studied swahili and other african languages, well known as goods. grand daughter layla is boning up on the local customs. she'll be accompanying booth on the journey. the him 8 of them, older people are often referred to as baba or mama. lawana. i know that word from
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my father co. harry means good bye. i remember that too. we can learn the stuff to morrow and the plain after a 9 hour flight, they have a stop over and doris salaam tens, and he has financial capital. they've been joined by their cousin, a doctor who's familiar with africa. kilimanjaro africa's highest mountain. that means it's not much farther to the car, get our region bordering lake victoria, on tans, and he has north western boundary. the journey by ship took holt's father several weeks they land at bo cobra airport, located in the border triangle of tanzania, rwanda and uganda. their excitement mounts. what has become of the parish roots?
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father established 2 representatives of the lutheran diocese are there to meet the travellers. they'd like to take root straight to the place she was born. but 1st they go to the headquarters of the lutheran church and bu, cova. here in north western tanzania, people live off the border trade with the neighboring countries over wanda and uganda. from fishing, coffee and bananas. christians and muslims make up around 35 percent of the tanzanian population. there are also hindus and animist communities. islam was brought to the tanzanian mainland and the 19th century by muslim missionaries from the sultan it of oman. but in the car gahan region,
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most people are christian. the largest church in bo cova is the roman catholic cathedral. the headquarters of the lutheran diocese is much simpler, but the complex includes a guest house restaurant and seminar rooms. with 3 she go, man. yes. magazine. yeah, why don't zia the content of it said dot soon. yeah. bishop abednego, cash. i'm chava studied in germany and is curious about the photos and reminiscences of the missionary, auto ha, gonna, has added into not to my dad, which i had to port. his view of the german missionaries contribution is positive. he cites the words of the 1st indigenous bishop of the lutheran church in tanzania, andrea cottages whole and knocked him d. after the german missionaries left the country because of the war he said weak. the church in tanzania is now an orphan shade, tanzania,
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his ts fed of rice. but the bishop tells his visitors that unlike the churches in europe, the african church is constantly growing. however, he is concerned about a new development in east africa. pentecostal missionaries are competing with the established churches. i would escalated, misty vash. leave that in itself, wouldn't be bad. the bad thing is that they are spreading false teachings. it and so before any done, some of them say the st. should only pray without going to the hospital. no, i bitten or met some crank and houses again? no, he i'll it together. they sing the easter him in swahili and german 4. ah, ah, his dash don done. hi lee. oh, hi george john. see them? oh no. oh god,
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yes. who are made? oh, you mean? cries u g. oh yeah. i would you go mines of no, for an african him sung in german, that's very ran this pacific initial then finally on take he go ramayo, where hood corner was born 50 kilometers in the direction of the ugandan border. this would have been almost a day's journey for her father 100 years ago, but the missionaries put up with many hardships gladly. they miss once good that the concept of mission that was current 100 years ago no longer exists, as on the absolute claim of any one religion has long since been replaced by into religious dialog, upgraded form. the pastors of the battle missionary society had no doubts about the universal validity of christianity. they came to convert the africans in his
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letters and records whose father describes the native religions as pagan serving of spirits. traditions such as polygamy were condemned. ah, finally they arrive antigua rama, lutheran church, the missionaries daughter has returned, and she is given a warm welcome. older members of the community, shake her hand. it seems that auto haga now has not been forgotten, even after almost a 100 years. a service is held in honor of the guests to day. the king aroma perish has almost 4000 members. it's one of the largest in the diocese. most of the residents here are subsistence farmers and is welcoming address church. elder enough, ca,
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missouri recalls the difficult beginnings of the 1st christians in this area. even before the arrival of german missionaries went in little full 40 people had been repaid by the end of this year miss. from uganda. this now says congregation was forced to worship you may be it kilometers from grandma who maintains little whoa, who they didn't submit z for thea, over the christian king because we were a which grandma power the 1st church was a mis shipped to one where the visionary or a gave you to play with it more prominent to one big go. yeah, i didn't end up with
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a new parishioner is baptized. but when who and her siblings were baptized? here there were already african pastors that flatter at my father wanted his 1st child to be baptized by a black pasta that fill the cal fittest. good off me. that's part of the image i have of my parents sat out of all they always treated africans as they equal sky chemo. oh, the heat in the collections during church services don't even cover the basic causes. a lutheran church and tanzania depends on partnerships with other countries . especially with parishes in germany. oh, the german lutheran church hasn't sent out any missionaries for more than 50 years . the evangelizing situation is reversed. today the german church is learning from tanzania. it's in j. u. it's a younger church. he is, they don't have the same hierarchy,
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provide tools. they don't have our enormous administrative burden. good might, shaw was the parishes and not as big as our parishes them manageable. you hub links, the easy i t and they don't have the problems and concerns that our pastors and church members have to cope with. he, he kinds of them to shlang at times. at hamlin, the old church registers are brought out baptisms, weddings, funerals, everything has been recorded here. in 1930, she comes across her father's name. this is all otto. how can i if you could you about via a busy, the parish is relaxed about its history. this is the question of whether the africans had any reservations about the european missionaries amuses the parish elders with his mother to. oh, people, people. i don't know what happened, but the when the screws were established,
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people like penance like to send their kids, the screws, her and the disability which was published awesome. by the way, the missionaries are when people went to different treatment. our church is principally a gym and church because even though a song saw gym over lunch, the guests learn how the parish has developed during the past decades to new schools of opened. soon a new church will be built the school building where hoot corona's father taught is still standing. they want to show it to her after lunch and i love them being the 5th for in the mission of ed, thank you. good am i. i see the elementary school of key kurama, the swahili word for school is sheila pronounced to like the german word,
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a relic of the colonial era. then there was 220 pupils are taught here. elementary school is compulsory in tanzania, and attendance is free. and secondary schools on the other hand, charge tuition fees. that's beyond the means of many parents. just issue wants it again going. i'm john gar. jamalia. i lied to her school was built by a pastor. i gave her by the name of auto hodgener from germany. the door came more than they were your mamma. he was here from 1928 to 1932. you mama them yet. and this lady is one of his children. are you and, oh god, what did you understand more that i knew mother. here the children respond with a lively song and appropriate tribute to the retired music teacher from germany.
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with then it's on to the main building built of brick over 90 years ago. the thought was comfortable with the community and especially the pupils had to lend a hand and constructing the school. pastor huggins attached great importance to this and not only because it cut costs what the missionaries called work training was part of their educational concept. they wanted africans to learn the suppose and german virtues of diligence and discipline. hogan noted, i was pleasantly surprised by the cheerful competition with which the boys went about this. not so easy task of pounding the clay in 2 hour sessions over just 5 afternoons. we were able to produce more than $800.00 bricks
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and the school is still standing. i think a further because his who he due to this one, that's where i had the my primary education this little but he always said, i miss everything that i have in terms of knowledge, skills or talent is not for me. this is alice me. i have the obligation to pass it on to others. he and i love my dad so that's what her father called sewing the seed of god's word. schoolwork was an important instrument of evangelization for the missionaries hug and i campaigned with his superiors and the lutheran missionary society to set up a complete christian school system in the region. we cannot limit ourselves to teaching reading and writing in the village schools and leave further education to the government. schools which is 99 today, almost a century later,
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huggins vision has become reality. private schools run by the churches have a better reputation than state schools in tanzania. a christian education is a passport to social advancement. ha. gonna advocated a soft missionary approach, respecting the african languages, social structures, customs, and traditions. the incumbent bishop of bu kobus says that this was what made it possible for an african national church to emerge. and these missionaries used d, the language, the language of the traditional religions to explicate, to explain to him deputy their bible in vic, lithia and their teachings. for example, the name good was taken from the african tradition already jim. the education was you, they establish it was use the the as a means over the quarter navigation. we have where freedom fighters will weigh. i
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told the by missionaries it was missionary schools, and they also established you host with those in your deck to heave civil diseases which had him dead air, many african back in keegan, rama who is shown a clinic run by the church. it was originally established by missionaries from germany. there is no national health insurance scheme in tanzania. patients must pay for treatment themselves, but with assistance from partner parishes, some of them in germany, the church and tans, and he can help some of the poorest patients. and a senior doctor explains that the h i v and malaria programs organized by the government are free of charge, vaccinations against the corona virus are also free to then go back and tell the adult we have, we have a campaign to reach those who cannot get to deposit it,
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so you are more well kleenex. oh, we got a g to day that i don't, as his winful books, vaccination to reach of a poor delay for expenses of getting had and had been had happiness. la newburgh confirms this assessment. the widow and mother of 2 school aged children runs a small diner on the main street of kiko rama. today there is fish and rice on the menu. her earnings are no more than one euro a day. past or a some well resolve comes to her assistance. the widow can't expect any support from the state maryland. the church is her only hope i told her she was i don't earn enough to pay the school fees for both my girls. that's why i have
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a 2nd job up and i know i also help out on a farm, but i'm specialty now connoisseurs in ark done at poverty. here is an enormous challenge for the charge. cut the cookie. did you, especially young people who don't have jobs or prospect awhile to quote, find your either they move to the big cities or they drift into crime and drug abuse. but when i shouldn't girls in particular fall by the wayside, because if, well, they don't have money for further school education to escape from poverty, cuz i've got amazon for over la. quinta to courtney cooper. happiness la newburgh could benefit from a micro credit program, the diocese has set up to combat poverty. it's intended to give women in particular, the opportunity to be economically independent where people can contribute to money, can receive and borrow money in groups air. and we have seen the mailer
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being successful in our groups will do establishing their basis. where are $4.00 video, tanzanian shootings, which is about $2000000.00 euros, $2000000.00. and they affect later in different groups of people who save and borrow money. and they give us more interest, which is the also divided among themselves after the end of the year. everyone else tries to survive through subsistence farming and key grammar. most people own a bit of land. what's left of the crop they sell. but poverty is increasing here. the corona pandemic and the war in ukraine have triggered a cost of living explosion. and above all, it's the lack of water caused by climate change that's making life so hard. tanzania has experienced
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a severe drought for more than 3 years. and it's estimated that global warming could turn large parts of the country into desert. the lutheran church and northwest tanzania has started a modest reforestation program to combat the effects of climate change. and key go rama to a grove of spruce is, has been established on land belonging to this parish explains one of the deacons. it's hoped the trees will prevent further soil erosion and also provide firewood before the property is re forested. those go for mission is students when become corolla? i watch it. they went to stay at the castle mission. we told them to come with 5 kids every student. then we assisted them, took lunch, and it keep it well. oh
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yeah. at the end of routes, visit the middle school choir, performs in her honor. the music of africa fascinated her father. he left the collection of traditional lyrics from this region b, b, b, b. ah. you ought to be envied for the joy and vitality with which she sing here in te grandma it's time to say good bye. and again, this was more than a pilgrimage to her place of birth. it was a moving encounter with africa with the african church and the complex history of evangelization. time to sum up when we were rushed with. i'm surprised and overwhelmed by the hospitality and the way guess it's a welcome to you. as a matter of course, we're on jesse's gown is the and that the people remember with fondness the evangelize period long ago in which missionaries light the foundations of
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a small church community. here i'm kicking your mind for earth, doc, yvonne decimal, the star, lima lo janay. you know, oh, oh, days of europeans coming to tanzania to preach the gospel are long gone. replaced by encounters of mutual respect between christians from 2 continents. africa was the great love of ruth corona's father who died young. he was particularly impressed by the people their music and their lively faith now aged more than 92 hoots. kona has been able to experience these things. first hand. good i'm. i'm incredibly grateful. i could experience it myself. oh oh
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