Sakia Mohammadi is nervous. In a small room high above the Afghan capital Kabul, she is sitting in front of a cup of green tea on an early summer morning. She has laid her headscarf over a chair and rolled up the sleeves of her long black robe. “This is one of the few places … Read more
Martin Michaelis, a Protestant pastor who lives in Quedlinburg/Saxony-Anhalt, has suffered a defeat in a church court. As the church newspaper “Faith + Home” reported, his complaint against an official instruction of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM) rejected. In 2022, the EKM had forbidden Michaelis by email from taking part in a demonstration … Read more
Ulm (epd). The effects of the corona pandemic have now also reached the counseling services. The Ulm/Alb-Donau Diakonie Association has recorded a significant increase in numbers, especially in debt counseling and the psychological counseling center. The capacities of the debt counseling service are completely exhausted, which is why there are already over 80 people seeking … Read more
Young people have bought and received more books in recent years. According to the German Publishers and Booksellers Association in Frankfurt am Main, book lovers aged 13 to 15 (plus 65 percent) and 16 to 19 (plus 77 percent) in particular increased their spending sharply between 2019 and 2023. The basis is the study “Bock … Read more
According to the Protestant daycare association of Bavaria (evKITA), the planned German tests for daycare children would lead to an additional burden on employees. According to current calculations by the Bertelsmann Foundation, daycare employees are absent due to illness significantly more often than employees in other professional groups, evKITA announced on Friday. If employees are … Read more
Remembrance work as a gesture of humility The work of remembrance requires a break – as a gesture of reflection. This is how Charlotte Kaiser describes her voluntary service at the “Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center” in Chicago, USA, during the year 2017/2018. The subject of the “Holocaust” is an integral part of the … Read more
Berlin, Schweinfurt (epd). In the first half of 2024, the German Advertising Council publicly reprimanded only two companies for sexist and degrading depictions of women. This continues a trend “that advertising at the expense of others is no longer socially acceptable and companies are acting much more sensitively,” said the Chairman of the Advertising Council, … Read more
But these fates are often ignored by society and in many prisons. For example, visiting times are offered in the morning when the children are at school. Or there is only the option of seeing the imprisoned parents during regular visits, isolated behind a glass partition. Children cannot talk to anyone about fear and sadness … Read more