to the old church of pity of easy. means the big pine tree by the water and the phrase suggests the essential features of one of central finland's loveliest lake districts. when the old churches had to give a z. was placed on the unesco world heritage list its appeal was enhanced in. couples who wish to marry here in the brief summer months have to apply in plenty of time in addition to services and christenings concerts around here to. england cari to architects from helsinki there were personal reasons for deciding to marry and petit of a.z. church in those great grandmother was married here to a century ago almost to the day. for generations couples have married here in this way. gets its first mention in historical documents in seventeen twenty one the year in which the northern war was ended by treaty. western finland remained in the swedish sphere of influence and so it was that the people of had to live a z. applied to came frederick the first of sweden for permission to build a chapel they originally needed the

more people joining the church and not just attending church conferences but other events to. talk about. let's raise public awareness of basic issues that we address and which matter. in the media has played an important part in i think in addition to all the events there have been many high quality t.v. programs radio programs and newspaper articles that show that there is considerable public interest in finding out more. everybody wants to be recruited to the church but they're interested in reading and learning about it so we want to be there for them and to answer their questions about the presence of sign but in recent years there have been reports about declining church membership including germany's lutheran church people are leaving in droves as the luther your stop this trend of time i know it wasn't designed as a marketing campaign aimed at a turn around but it might have had that effect exactly but i think major cultural events like this have a more subtle but also more sustainable effect that we've already gained a lot if we've awakened interest in religious quest

i don't go to her church because i just stopped believing in people who work in the church because one of them said to me that i am treated the right way and it is all my fault that i chose the wrong man and after that i stopped going to the church. perhaps the most controversial law with strong religious implications introduced by the government of blood to me it is the anti terra rovio law aimed at extremists. it's sunday in moscow and we've been invited to a secret meeting by a group considered so dangerous by the russian government that that activities have been outlawed. at any moment the police could rate this flight. to on. your values and i usually just you might be surprised to learn that these people are in fact jehovah's witnesses. well you know that. yes every time you may think i have to root for bible what it. is that i ask and frost as a good idea come i believe i saw it. so you knew some of what i believe altered. but doesn't mean you will you could only put in the good news that says he had to live over. you want i do and say you have it not on us but will it. last jun

it was music in the church centuries ago with composers like bach as i knew the church was for the best of the best. where are they now we want to be the generation to bring new creativity because god is creative. tough isn't it fun celebrating god here in the city center. this is concert meets prayer and it has the blessing of the church the brothers a protestant but they also want to build bridges between denominations several thousand people come to their base of events which they organize four times a year in various medications. his name stand up just i really believe that they live what they saying it's great. because they get the faith across really well at the met is not some old church thing sitting on a cold pew because a lot of warm fan is on for no reason was a very. last hour as one important person had to miss the event to do a guest performance for the band who are florence joy is the singer of carnegie and the star and she's also married to thomas the band's lyrics often refer to god in the familia do form a way to make him feel closer and more accessible over the it was

the lutheran church in germany the ek d. welcome to the interview. thanks for inviting me. exactly five hundred years ago luther nailed his ninety five feces to the door of the castle church invited him back an innovative way of communicating a message was luther the first blogger. yes. i mean might not really have used to hammer a nail. but he didn't just use the printing press to convey his message. he created publicity and before that there hadn't been a public arena for debating and spreading ideas. you favor a traditional means of communication the book your latest one is called ninety five questions about the reformation it includes unusual questions such as who invented the most popular luther quote. so who was it that. you know it's a nice quote that goes even if i knew the world were ending tomorrow i would plant an apple tree today and we don't know who came up with it and a lot of luther quotes were made up and that one dates to after the second world war. there was a message of hope and attributing it to luther g

the church very preached. and this is where another famous son of eisenach was born in sixty to eighty five composer johan's a bastion by the museum shows what luther and having comma. after world war two eisenach was known for its car factory the east german was named after the castle and the three fifty three model was built here for over twenty years and still has a fan following. including mark o'mara who's been taking care of his abroad for over thirty years now. for me represents car history and strong links and a feel of how. i grew up here with this car and these factory. cars have been built in eisenach for over one hundred twenty years now in the city is on to an opel factory tourists can see the collection of automobiles at a special exhibition including of course the boat but. the cost is the same name as the casa and that link them closely and it's. also stood for the many different aspects of the city which is but a cultural center and an industrial home. that was never a contradiction an industr

building that actually belonged to that church so it could be the first step there

the churches of sous down. in the rusher of. not just treasure houses of folk art they represented the treasure of the people the wealth of the poor. fire and folk would not destroy them but in their desire to get rid of the faith and symbols the communists allowed the cathedrals and churches to be kind of become one with the money. the power of the new room is decayed in its turn the ancient crosses were gilded. as if you wanted to make up for the long silence the bell ringer on the towers and your serious tongues away for all he's worth. the bells have often had to sound the alarm since this fortified ministry was founded more than six hundred years ago whenever the russians sort of throw off the mongol yoke war would break out again and the ramparts of says doll could not withstand the storm of the thomas. it's hard to imagine life behind the kremlin wall in those days before the tatas broke in in the days when you already don't go to keep the prince with the long brained ensues down and his soldiery chase down the narrow str

to the gate to the door of the church of. triggering what became known as the protest and lutheran reformation. really the culmination of a set of different movements around europe which were movements of protestation against the sort of overwhelming unchecked power of rome not only political religious power but also political and financial power rome actually was saying and was in both saying levies and so on i mean in northern europe and northern europe saw very little in return for that i mean there was a lot of involvement with political systems in northern europe but at the level of . the public. the. essentially there was nothing to show for it this meant that sort of the ground was rife for for the type of revolution or for some sort of. and that came in the form of a bird to station this bridge station became a political religious movement but also a political movement that to some degree helped to find them up not only politically but also sort of the national map of northern europe ok what will talk more about lots

the reformed church in geneva. pastor cutting across there is bringing the church into the twenty first century. the church is open to all religions and the nominations many of the members every community around one another on. the project is called at the lab and welcomes anyone looking for meaning in spirituality. yes. we all have one of these. if you like take a look at little shirts off facebook and see what we've got planned this evening this. affects your digital i didn't become a pastor to hold services the purpose of the church has changed since. i believe that young people have reached a much higher plane of religious or spiritual awareness than in the past it's just . the best i want to give everything else is used to be like teaches when i had it i'm telling you how it is i know better attitude if you're set on it goes but i believe a change is underway and our community can also teach us. we can learn from one another is also new and is on this. six hundred years ago the roman catholic church was divide

church. luther's theses is still considered one of the pivotal moments in german history. the reform lived in the house on and off for almost forty years until his death in fifteen forty six his wife katarina ran the household and they had six children together. twenty seventeen has been a big year for luther and the reformation the highlight was the german protestant church congress in berlin at the end of may hundreds of thousands of guests attended the five day celebration among the two thousand and ends on the agenda a visit by barack obama. therefore you start. to say all of that. and thank the former u.s. president was well received around seventy thousand people attended this event. thanks. to and the congress many participants traveled southwest of britain for a church service on the banks of the river elbe and it's the first time the event was held in two cities an exception made to mock luther a year. various other events have taken place throughout the year invading back. such as t

in the churches worldwide from view so the evangelical church cannot be anything but an ecumenical church that's why these uses a second this is also a challenge to the fact that jesus christ lives in all churches ecumenically world wide also means that we have to try to make that visible but so mom. will have to see it. so we also have you ecumenism as a challenge to achieve more in common in the life of the church as it's called. perhaps we should see martin luther differently now as a common element of the churches holding them together forward first luther did not intend to establish a new church but to reform his own the roman catholic church. at the augustinian priory an airport that could become very evident. it's reformation. programs from the clock marking its five hundredth the first three. months in. a pair of hope for the noah and middle classes. of the bible great shape the development of the german language. and the script is accessible to ordinary people . to what extent to help to bring about the creation of a unified germany thank. you for the nation seventy five. elephan

because i think he could not believe that the church could sink so low. because it's so for color. but luther had his own flaws this scene depict a jewish man being exiled from the town a common practice at the time luther himself would later turn against the jews. another scene in the panorama shows the burning of witches with the hope that luther said absolutely nothing against this but he was a man of his time i can't judge him for that after all he's only human. and. the three hundred sixty degree panorama is a fascinating trip back in time to the birth of the reformation. second we saw it and we're amazed at how real it looks as though some very. odd guys is around so you feel like you're right that. friend of mine in the tends to. be an artist did a wonderful job of portraying the history of the reformation in one chronological sequence that his book is written as if. this is arguably the most important site in refer mation history all saints church also known as the castle church due to its role in the revolution it's always surrounded by crowds of

and there's the english king and church reform ahead. less obvious might be swedish author astrid linger and she puts on. of luthor into her characters by castle there is a line from carlson on the roof that was unfortunately not reproduced in the translation us whenever something goes wrong for carlsen he says it's just a worldly thing that's based on a quote that luther formulated. from. back at the old prison louisa shirt has dedicated her work to the women of britain barack is famous as martin luther shrewd wife catalina farm boy the artist hopes to change that with this plaque for example it commemorates a nine hundred eighty seven general strike that never actually happened. to hopes it will inspire the people of britain back. to stand down by three i might wonder why they don't know anything about this general strike what does it mean for what could have meant for the history of women in east germany or all of germany. what would it mean if i took part in a general strike today if i didn't agree with certain political conditions a

the lutheran macedonian church is an entirely black parish.the music group comprising singers from namibia botswana and germany is performing in the church this evening they've been rehearsing together for a week and found a common myth of. the young germans will return home with the impression that black namibians don't feel any animosity towards germans in spite of their colonial history. from namibia they traveled to berlin where this year the five hundredth anniversary of the reformation is being celebrated at the evangelical church convention. here prominent lutherans are discussing whether the reformation benefited distant countries like those in africa and whether the church today bears a responsibility for the mistakes of the past. the evangelical church in germany has explicitly acknowledged its guilt with regard to the genocide in the middle now it must bear fruit it must have political consequences germany has to do some. but i don't have a bad conscience about the fact that. the. specific. well known. and. have accepted. this week'

who have very little contact with the church. of course with these projects we hope to communicate a message that is important to us as the church a message about faith in this case martin luther we like to say. and we want to involve a lot of people when doing so. if you or there are about two dozen employees that it's the large number of volunteers who make these projects possible. you know. from the beginning of the luther project there have been many many partners including the. search of westphalia and the german even jailable church supported us and from the start we were fortunate in having the even jailed all churches reformation commission are involved of. she made an enormous contribution of with regard to the theological aspects of the project. because there's an absence of a free spirit naturally i wrestled with michel concerned about some passages for instance where i thought that in the age of ecumenism a reformation anniversary or not to be anti catholic but of course it's the telling of the story and this story is

when people don't come to church the church has to come to the people. spreading the word from all the book probably took this sentence from the bible literally the pastor has been on tour with an inflatable house of god for years he likes it when it's unusual church is close to the water because for this traveling man of god kitesurfing is heaven on earth. carsten holcomb of the traveling pastor from northern germany takes to his board whenever he can. it's brilliant there's nobody on the water and not much wind but this is wonderful it's a drama. being out on the water with our maker and you can switch off and really take things to the limits it's awesome. welcome is just as unconventional as his house of god. portable and inflatable it's a kind of bouncy church. that isn't in courts you have to take care that the cross is blown up properly and standing tall because it's done and up she goes past and it will come by tours mainly northern germany with his itinerant church hitting the cutting events and festivals along the way like this one on the beach

queuing up for church in martin luther's hometown witan back today thousands came to celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of the protestant reformation and all of my life i've been lutheran this is a very important day for me any less is the this is the place where luther lived and worked and we want to celebrate this today and that if one cannot understand german history without luther and the reformation it has left its mark on us i myself belong to a lutheran church and belief in its values but at the council church of wittenberg germany's leaders including chancellor merkel herself daughter of a lutheran pastor attended a service to commemorate martin luther d.s. legend has it that it was here on this day five hundred years ago that nailed his ninety five thesis through the door of the council church the document was not attacked on practices of the catholic church luther wanted to reform it not divide it but his ideas to simply to revolutionary how i'll timidly it was a liberation for the world the replace the hiroki of power and money but the new individual freedom manifested

is in moscow as the russian government progress to return a cathedral to the evangelical lutheran church we have a report from our correspondent there. other unwelcome i'm a thought she. the trial has started for a german human rights activist arrested in istanbul in july british jordan is one of eleven germans currently imprisoned in turkey balances he's been wrongfully detained and has been strongly campaigning for israelis he was arrested while at a workshop on digital security for other human rights activists in istanbul he's being tried along with members of amnesty international including the director of amnesty international in turkey jordan a stands accused of links to armed terrorist groups and of having ties to the man allegedly behind last year's failed coup the islamic cleric for two law glynn if convicted stored the faces up to fifteen years in prison his trial is putting already strained relations between germany and turkey to the test the german foreign minister sigma garble has called the predator for a long prison sentence called in comprehensible and an acceptable earli

in addition to the lutherans the evangelical churches are also doing well in africa . the exhibition shows that luther's doctrine of faith wasn't the only one to spread beyond hero. sidon for begin to show that it was also the reformed church as the anglicans toys and we take a look at catholics to reagan's this in for wednesday the anabaptists at the basic course that emerged in the sixteenth century and then spread around the world to sweden the united states tanzania and korea. what's happening in the us is also interesting from a political perspective as seen in footage of iraq church services in the deeply religious bible belt the exhibition gives us a better insight into the evangelicals in the heartland of america the proponents of creationism and the pro-life and anti abortion activists spinoffs which luther cannot have possibly envisioned. this exhibition in berlin is one of three major special exhibitions in germany marking the five hundredth anniversary of the reformation the other two are as we've seen in witan belak and at vauxhall corsa where luther trans

people thought they were being true american evidences the went to church, any church. said eisenhower. doesn't matter what church you good to. but it builds character, virtue, and so on. anyway, billy graham wanting to build a national revival, found that's fundamentalists simply turned too many people off. to bigots, too narrow, too difficult, and he in turn cut them off and called himself an evangelical, and which he meant some people who were not angry at everybody but who had pretty much the same theology but sort of calmed down, water down if you want, but it was a kinder, gentler fundamentalism. ... talk about that relationship and at the beginning of the bullet at the station of the evangelical movement, and fundamentalism for that movement. movement. >> billy graham like powerful people, he always did. they were extremely helpful to him, the rich and powerful politicians, because they would make his estate revivals much easier to accomplish and they would be with him, and they would get a shining glow of billy graham and around them. he would seem even more imp

the town church of st mary's on britain bags market square is the mother church of the reformation . before long services were being held in the german language not in latin. as were baptisms. to the. school. just as. martin luther and other britney back reformers preached famous sermons here the altar piece is a major example of kanakas reformation artworks it's a monumental depiction of the last supper a late work from the year fifteen forty seven. instead of including worshipful catholic donors and saints in the work real life figures of the reformation of been made part of the narrative the central penalty picks the last supper with jesus and his apostles the bearded apostle on the right of the picture turning outward is martin luther he's accepting a beaker of wine from a servant with the features of lucas chrono the younger. the left panel shows luther as friend and fellow reformer philip relaunched on at a baptist on. the right panel features another briton beggary former your highness book in the confessional. cannot painted actual people of his time into the biblical action

as an institution so a very high ranking church official very important person in the catholic churchwhat exactly is cardinal pell accused of well nobody really knows because the church has had not been made public this is something that we will know only this moves to trial if this moves to trial what he was sworn of. true today was that in fact there will be. process that is to say there will be a process of revising whether that you say sions have any merit and they actually can be turned into a trial and that will happen in march it will begin the fifth of march when we do know what the charges what the charges are it will be only at that stage at this point what we know is that they're talking about historical sexual abuse allegations. in recent years we've seen numerous cases of child abuse by church officials how is the catholic church dealing with such cases at this point in time for most observers i think unless they're very close to the church their reasons that they are quite timid in really pushing serious reform and this is something that has been said by as ations of vic

soldiers came and fired into the church and killed many people.that may be just a legend but there is no doubt that phone photos methods were brutal. the herrero were nomadic katzman the german general trained artillery on the camps the protection force was ratcheted up to more than eight thousand men posing force was no more than five or six thousand lightly armed herdsman. own ancestors trying to resist the germans but they only had rifles and sticks. they fought but they weren't armed like the germans. however herero had one significant advantage they knew their land using guerilla tactics they managed to kill some two hundred german soldiers in the first three months of the war. then general phone made his notorious decisive move with artillery and machine guns he drove the herero onto a strip of land at the foot of the volatile back mountain forty thousand of them men women and children. then the germans attacked on three sides the only hope for the herero was to flee across the area to a heck of a platter. those who tried to a match from the

no church would take you ? anotherjob in the church. no church would take you?e bishops will not acknowledge or license me or allow me to have a job. what happens when the church wa nts you job. what happens when the church wants you but the bishops say no, is there no discussion or argument to make? the bishops control the process of giving people permission to do things. so a parish might want me to work with them, but because the bishop will not license me, i can't. two things are happening simultaneously. you understand better than we do, but these blessings are happening in church. all over the place. there was one in a cathedral this summer. i'm doing three this year. they are happening, but the official position of the church of england is they don't happen. it is similar to divorce. the official position of the church of england is that divorce isn't allowed, but the reference all over the country will marry divorced people all over the place. why does this need to be debated and possibly rejected by the general synod, which would then make it possibly m

to martin luther inventing back where the monks first to challenge the authority of the catholic church. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us and we begin tonight with a former president on the run who says he's. not spain's high court has summoned the sacked kava long leader to testify in madrid on thursday it is just the latest twist in the ongoing cavill on the crisis. is currently in the belgian capital brussels he and other kettle on leaders traveled there after a spanish authorities launched a rebellion case over catalonia as independence bid. carla spears dumond's first appearance since declaring catalan independence last week was every bet is frenetic as the political fallout he left behind in spain now in belgium the ousted president says he's there for protection not asylum i am not here in order to deliver because. these are the belgian questions of i'm here in brussels as a result of europe i'm here. to act with freedom and safety and security. as he left yet more chaos behind the upstart leader couldn't avoid questions of whether he had fled the scene. outside the sp

this church in 1968?5. all of those people were thrown out. displaced from southwest. we know this happens. >> they lined up the bulldozers and leveled everything. >> reporter: private companies are driving the change. >> it's going to work, or they'll be bankrupt. >> reporter: so while more homes or businesses are being built, those swanky condos with big price tags are simply out of reach for many. >> my goodness. i've never seen so many construction cranes in high life. >> reporter: remember david southwest is not what he remembers, and he wants to move back. even though this change was the reason he had to leave in the the first place. >> good for the washington economy. bad for a lot of its residents, because they're going to have to do like i did, if they haven't done so already, and move further out. >> reporter: now another question for the wharf is what happens to the famous fish market down there? it's considered the country's oldest open air fish market. it used to be known as the war wharf. no

at the castle church of wittenberg germany's leaders including chancellor merkel herself daughter of a lutheran pastor attended a service to commemorate martin luther d.s. legend has it that it was here on this day five hundred years ago that the name of his ninety five thesis through the door of the council church the document was not tacked on practices of the catholic church luther wanted to reform it not divide it but it's ideas to simply to revolutionary how i'll timidly it was a liberation for the world the replace the hiroki of power and money but the new individual freedom manifested in love. in the site of their service and getting back the head of the protestant church in germany which bed for the hat of the catholic church in the country cardinal run up marx jointly presented german president funk by the steinmeyer but the cross as a symbol of unity after the service german chancellor angela merkel underlined the importance of religious liberty saying that ensuring it is one of the key duties of a free society. just as freedom of belief must always be protected from religi

just around the corner . >> just to knock down a church like i did. >> this pastor's church is now thisole in the ground. >> i felt like i was at a patient's sick bed when i watch the church go. . >> and on capitol hill this realtor says business is booming. >> there was very little turn over. you know, 10, 15 yearsago the economic profile is ella evaluated. that's what'shappens. >> the fact that people of color have had problems that they have now for a long time. but it's only when higher income people come then all of a sudden things get quote unquote better. >> he didn't want to be part of that losing equation so he stopped flipping houses and started a dog walking business. >> i don't want to be a part of it. >> right around he was leaving the game. >> it's a way of leveraging the resource you have which is property. >> the reverend was trying to get in faced an ageing church and small bank account he crashed in on a great idea. >> we created a development team to start asking questions. >> the answer came nearly a decade later. riverside baptist church is now making room for frank

he didn't necessarily think it should lead to the establishment of a new church. could i could even imagine he would have v.m. and he rejected any such idea and had. believed christians should assume more individual responsibility for their actions no one should be able to buy a clean conscience he translated the bible from latin into german so that everyone could understand it and the newly invented printing press helped him spread the scriptures in the. despite the christian schism and some shadow is excited about the anniversary and the chance to meet with lutheran colleagues he thinks both churches today recognize more things that unite than divide them. i don't believe we are celebrating it nor are the lutheran celebrating it. rather we are commemorating the split in the church and hoping to do what we can to overcome it when. one thing the two churches already share in this jubilee year is a love of song just the way luther would have liked it. was a voracious reader and an extremely prolific bestselling author at the height of his fame three times as many b

with the loss of church unity the old political order to was irretrievably lost. princes towns and entire regions embraced. his doctrine. yet the man who found refuge in casa left behind fall more than a theological legacy. martin luther's appearance involves was a rallying cry not only for freedom of religion but also for freedom in secular fantasy in germany and elsewhere his translation of the bible laid the foundation for a nation bound together by a common language luther was a unifying and a divider his legacy has shaped german history five centuries. it's all about the moments that lie before. it's all about the story inside. it's all about george chance to discover the world from different perspectives. join us inspired by distinctive instagram others at g.w. stories the topic each week on instagram. health. and here in studio. solidarity. they fall by the wayside when the gap between rich and poor grows. life in an equal societies. the divide starting november fifteenth on d w. when cities are in golf by the sea. all the dams walls and costly protective m

just sort of the church belongs to the congregation it belongs to the people that come here and look after it so st peter's and paul's cathedral will be the first evangelical lutheran church to be given back to the congregation they hope it will set a precedent and that the russian state will return other churches as well. albert einstein describing the key to happiness as sold for around one point five million dollars at an auction in jerusalem einstein gave the piece of hundred bytes to a japanese bellboy after the scientist realized he had no money to give him a tip the auction note reads a calm and modest live brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness bidding began at two thousand dollars but escalated quickly before the note went to a mystery. business there's a bank facility looking at your fans as earnings are soaring the german airline is using its might to go on buying spree in europe. that's coming up shortly. where i come from we have to fly.