Good evening,


the 3rd Ecumenical Church Congress in Frankfurt ended on Sunday, but you probably noticed relatively little about it.

The Ascension Service on Thursday was followed by around a million people on television, and the organizers counted around 160,000 visitors to the Kirchentag website.

But this Kirchentag didn't really hit the town - and neither did it in people's minds.

The dreary spectacle probably cost around 18 million euros.

But digitally, they largely stayed to one another, exchanging the well-known theses on the economy, climate protection and social policy by mutual agreement.

We report and comment.

Carsten Knop

Editor.

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    The consensus among those who came to protest in downtown Frankfurt on Saturday afternoon was that the world would be a better place if the State of Israel were erased: the police counted 2,500 participants. There was a demonstration against the operations of the Israeli military against Gaza. There was no criticism of the Hamas rocket attacks that provoked the military conflict. The city of Frankfurt had banned the demonstration. But two courts have overturned the order again. One is amazed - and annoyed. The argument that the city should first have imposed conditions before the ban appears unworldly.

    Helmut Schwan and Ewald Hetrodt spoke to Hesse’s data protection officer, Alexander Roßnagel, about the follow-up of contacts in the pandemic, the affair surrounding the threatening letters from “NSU 2.0” and his skepticism towards social networks. Interesting: Roßnagel considers the accusation that data protection prevents a more effective fight against the pandemic to be wrong. He thinks the opposite is the case. Data protection is flexible enough. On the other hand, the tracking of contacts in bars and shops last summer was anything but data protection compliant: “The guests were able to see who was there, with whom, for how long and so on. It even went so far that attractive women received calls from the staff asking whether they could even meet. "

    And in addition, the citizens' initiative for the preservation of the so-called Green Lung at Günthersburgpark, in view of the imminent end of the coalition negotiations between the Greens, SPD, FDP and Volt, is calling for a concept for the area in Nordend +++ with “NSU 2.0” at Schauspiel Frankfurt Questions that one would like to discuss in the theater, as Eva-Maria Magel thinks +++, the strict corona rules of the federal emergency brake will be relaxed on Monday in Darmstadt and in the districts of Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hochtaunus, Rheingau-Taunus, Vogelsberg and Wetterau .

    The level concept of the state government now applies there.

    Many greetings from the editorial team and a good start to the week,

    Your Carsten Knop

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