It’s the second Easter in the Ukraine war. Leading representatives of the Catholic and Protestant churches also address this in their sermons.
The Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki described the Ukraine war as a civilization low point. “This terrible war in Ukraine, which has been raging for 410 days, is one of the darkest parts of our so-called modern history of civilization,” said Woelki in his sermon in Cologne Cathedral after the text of the speech had been disseminated in advance.
“Brutal destruction and death everywhere you look. Untold suffering and tears for millions of people.” According to Woelki, the number of people fleeing war, conflict and persecution around the world has never been higher than it is now.
“The storm of war continues to sweep over the people of Ukraine”
The chairwoman of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), Annette Kurschus, called for people not to be paralyzed by the many crises in the world. “The storm of war continues to sweep over the people in Ukraine,” said Kurschus, who is also President of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, according to a statement by the EKD. However, Easter is God’s strong counter-speech against everything that appears to be deadlocked and hopeless.
The Rhenish President Thorsten Latzel said in his Easter message that without belief in the resurrection, Jesus would only be an innocently executed man, “another regrettable victim of those in power in this world. Back then on Golgotha as now in Bucha, Tehran, Idlib, Kabul.” But Christians believed that not everything is over with death. The evangelical theologian admitted that believing in it is not easy. His mother personally implanted the hope of life after death in him: “Today my mother is 85, slightly demented, in a nursing home. But she still bears witness to hope and resurrection: “Oh, you know, Thorsten, that one upstairs already knows what he intends to do with me,” she said to him.
On Easter, Christians celebrate the fact that, according to biblical tradition, Jesus rose from the dead three days after his execution.
Source: Stern
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