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As the far-right in Germany aims to take power, churches are fighting back
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In Short: Bishop Friedrich Kramer, the top administrative leader for the Protestant church in most of Saxony-Anhalt, said all this activity is unprecedented for churches, but it wasn’t their choice.
Bishop Friedrich Kramer, the top administrative leader for the Protestant church in most of Saxony-Anhalt, said all this activity is unprecedented for churches, but it wasn’t their choice.
Klemens Schubert said the tower, imprinted with phrases like “solidarity and human rights,” is a fitting metaphor, whether it stands or falls.
As many as 20 people stay there every year, Ulrike Bischoff said.
“The churches are not the motor of escalation. In this case, it’s the AfD,” he said in an interview, which a colleague translated from German.
“We make politics in the interest of our citizens, and our citizens are mostly German. Whiteness, I am not interested in this race question. And if there’s a Black German voting for AfD, no problem” Tillschneider said.
“Believe me, learning was not easy. I fell many times,” Zholia Parsi said in an interview, using a translation app on her phone.
“We are an open sport right now,” Ulrike Bischoff said.
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