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Düsseldorf / Essen (dpa / lnw) - At the turn of the year, the churches in North Rhine-Westphalia are reminding of the suffering associated with the corona pandemic - and also of forgotten topics.
Manfred Rekowski, President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland: “I am thinking of climate change.
I think of people in other parts of the world who lack the most basic necessities, whose lives are threatened with starvation or who have to flee to survive. "
And he is also thinking “that in many parts of the world human rights are trampled underfoot and humanity falls by the wayside”, says Rekowski in a video message at the turn of the year.
The Bishop of Essen, Franz-Josef Overbeck, sees the fight against corona at the beginning of 2021 "great thoughtfulness, worry, fear and some fear."
He cannot discover the magic of a beginning, says the Ruhr bishop at the turn of the year.
Everything is surrounded by a "veil of ignorance" - and the realization that "the crisis will burden us for even longer," said Overbeck, according to a message from the diocese of Essen at the New Year's sermon.
Overbeck therefore emphasizes that there can be no simple solutions in fighting pandemics.
All steps must be "weighed up and argued."
The theologian of the Catholic Church believes that a “both-and” more often helps than a “radical either-or”.
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Video message Rekowski