The German Evangelical Alliance (german: Deutsche Evangelische Allianz) is a national

evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual expe ...

alliance, member of the

World Evangelical Alliance The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is an interdenominational organization of evangelical Christian churches, serving more than 600 million evangelicals, founded in 1846 in London, England, United Kingdom to unite evangelicals worldwide. WEA i ...

History

The German Evangelical Alliance (German: Deutsche Evangelische Allianz) has been active since 1851 in Germany. At present the German EA has members who are closely connected. They are connected to the EA-Organisation or welfare services, who are a part of the "Evangelische Allianz". Before 1990 in Germany there were two separate organisations, since the division of the country. In the GDR there was the "Evangelische Allianz in der DDR" and the "Deutsche Evangelische Allianz e. V." in the West, based in Stuttgart. In the course of reunification of Germany both organisations also merged. The offices of the "Deutschen Evangelische Allianz" were until November 2004 in Stuttgart. Being pushed for money, the Organisation moved to

Bad Blankenburg Bad Blankenburg () is a spa town in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 6 km southwest of Rudolstadt, and 37 km southeast of Erfurt. It is most famous for being the location of the first kinderga ...

. Today the German EA is a state-approved organisation (''

eingetragener Verein An (; "registered association" or "incorporated association"), abbreviated (), is a legal status for a registered voluntary association in Germany. While any group may be called a , registration as confers many legal benefits, because it con ...

'' or ''e.V.''), with a conference center, recreation home and hotel. There are 1,200 local churches, free churches or free groups who support the alliance. Deputies of the Evangelische Allianz meet once a year in

for the Alliance-Conference (German: Allianzkonferenz). The affiliated “Institute for the Islamic Question” (German: Institut für Islamfragen) gives a special service of information about Islam from a Christian point of view. The "Deutsche Evangelische Allianz" is an accredited organisation by German law and is represented in the

Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Common ...

(German parliament) by Wolfgang Baake as Commissioner of the German EA.

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Literature

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Publications of Evangelische Allianz

* Magazine ''EiNS - Gemeinsam Glauben, Miteinander Handeln'', frequency 4x a year * Giveaway to special themes, per example Islam * Statements to ethic and political question of principle * Newsletters

References

External links

German Evangelical Alliance
German: Deutsche Evangelische Allianz
Swiss Evangelical Alliance
German: Schweizerische Evangelische Allianz
World Evangelical Alliance

European Evangelical Alliance

Hope for Europe
also from European Evangelical Alliance
News Service of German Evangelical Alliance
“idea” - news in German {{Authority control Evangelical organizations established in the 19th century Evangelicalism in Germany 1846 establishments in Germany National evangelical alliances

History

Literature

Publications of Evangelische Allianz

See also

References

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