In Hannover the Marktkirchen community and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien invite you to a benefit concert for the Ukraine on Tuesday, March 1st at 6 p.m. Leonid Gorokhov, professor of cello, will lead through the program. Marc Blessing, Pastor at the Marktkirche, and Pastor Ralf Tyra, Director of the House of Church Services, will be involved in this concert with a welcome and a prayer for peace. . Access to the concert is possible after 3G, which is controlled at the entrance. Wearing a mouth and nose cover is mandatory.
In Neu-Ulm on Wednesday, March 2nd, from 6 p.m., the cities of Neu-Ulm and Ulm invite you to an ecumenical prayer for peace in the Minster with the Protestant Dean Ernst-Wilhelm Gohl and the Catholic Bishop of Augsburg, Bertram Meier. In addition, the tallest church tower in the world is illuminated in the Ukrainian national colors of blue and yellow. Afterwards, a vigil is planned on Münsterplatz.
In Nattheim (Baden-Württemberg) an ecumenical prayer for peace begins on Friday, March 4th at 7 p.m. in the Martinskirche. The church is open from 6 p.m. with music and quiet prayer.
Past Worship Services
- In Hannover invites the Evangelical City Church Association for Friday, 25.2. from 5 p.m. to an interreligious prayer for peace in the Marktkirche. Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) and Mayor Belit Onay (Greens) also want to take part. Nationwide, solidarity with the people affected and threatened by acts of war should be shown in as many communities as possible on Friday from 6 p.m., said the council chairman of the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony, Bishop Thomas Adomeit.
- In Bremen will also be on Friday, February 25th. from 5.30 p.m. a prayer is planned on the market square. At the same time, the bells of the churches in the city should ring for peace.
- In Munich the Bavarian regional bishop and former EKD council chairman Heinrich Bedford-Strohm will take part in an ecumenical prayer for peace at 7.30 p.m. in the Jesuit Church of St. Michael.
- In the Nuremberg On Saturday, February 26, at 4 p.m. in the St. Lorenz Church, there will be a prayer for peace with regional bishop Elisabeth Hann von Weyhern, city dean Jürgen Körnlein, emigrant pastor Sabine Arnold and pastor Tobias Graßmann. Prayers are prayed in three languages: German, Ukrainian and Russian.
- In Hamburg begins Saturday, February 26th. at 5 p.m. an ecumenical prayer for peace with Bishop Kirsten Fehrs, Archbishop Stefan Hesse and Pastor Pavlo Tsvok from the Ukrainian Catholic parish in the main church of St. Peter. Also involved are Iryna Tybinka, Consul General of Ukraine, President of the Parliament Carola Veit (SPD) and the Russian church musician Sergej Tcherepanov.
- also in Hamburg On Sunday, February 27, at 3.30 p.m., Bishop Fehrs will celebrate a prayer service with the Ukrainian Orthodox community in the St. Andreas Church in Eimsbüttel.
- nationwide Should the bells ring on Sunday evening, 27.2. call for prayers for the victims of war and for peace. The initiative of Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)the catholic German Bishops’ Conference and des Working Group of Christian Churches (ACK) as many parishes as possible should join with offers on site.
- In Aachen From 5 p.m. people have the opportunity to pray in front of the Cross of Friendship in the cathedral. Vespers begins at 6 p.m.
- In Hamburg Archbishop Stefan Hess invites you to a prayer of friendship at 5 p.m. in St. Mary’s Cathedral.
- In Paderborn a service in the cathedral begins at 6 p.m. with cathedral pastor Matthias Klauke.
- In Limburg begins at 6 p.m. a prayer for peace with Bishop Georg Bätzing in the cathedral.
- In Stuttgart Bishop Frank Otfried July and Bishop Gebhard Fürst call for prayer for peace in Ukraine at an ecumenical service on Sunday, February 27, at 6 p.m. in the St. Eberhard Cathedral and invite all believers to do so.
- In the cathedral Essen Worship service begins at 7 p.m
More on the Ukraine-Russia crisis
In the past few days, EU politicians have repeatedly promised solidarity with Ukraine. Now the matter is becoming more concrete: may Ukraine become a member of the Union?
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Church and sustainability banks have called on the financial industry and investors to boycott Russian financial institutions.
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