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On the 90th anniversary of the Barmen Declaration where members of Germany\u2019s Confessing Church condemned Nazi incursions in church life, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has praised it for helping Christians since then combat oppression and injustice.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Barmen Declaration has served as an inspiration to Christians facing tyranny, injustice, and discrimination of the need for the church to reject the claims of oppressive regimes and to combat heretical tendencies within its own ranks,\u201d Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay stated in a message to the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).<\/p>\n\n\n

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The declaration was issued on the last day of a synod from 29\u201331 May 1934 which met in Barmen, a district of the city of Wuppertal in the Rhineland. It was an appeal to Protestants to reject the policies of the so-called \u201cGerman Christians\u201d who supported National Socialism and its policies in church life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPrecisely because we want to be and to remain faithful to our various confessions, we may not keep silent, since we believe that we have been given a common message to utter in a time of common need and temptation,\u201d the synod stated in its declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are bound together by the confession of the one Lord of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church,\u201d it affirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pillay, who comes from South Africa, recalled how in his country the Barmen Declaration helped inspire the theological resistance to apartheid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This also found expression in the Kairos Document of 1985, whose anniversary the WCC will commemorate in 2025 when its central committee meets in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Barmen Declaration, Pillay said, was a \u201ctruly ecumenical event,\u201d since it was the first common statement by representatives of Lutheran, Reformed, and United churches in Germany since the time of the Reformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday, the Barmen Theological Declaration reminds us of the inextricable link between the search for the unity of the church and the need for a common message on the basis of our faith against tyranny, war, and injustice,\u201d Pillay wrote in his letter to Bishop Petra Bosse-Huber, head of the EKD\u2019s Department for Ecumenical Relations and Ministries Abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WCC message to the Evangelical Church in Germany on the 90th anniversary of the Barmen Declaration<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text of the Barmen Declaration<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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