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‘Bowie In Berlin’ BBC Radio 4 14/09/24 8pm I’ve produced a radio doc about David Bowie‘s time in Berlin / living with Iggy, wearing moustache & check shirts, making Heroes in Hansa, as remembered by those who were with him. Presented by filmmaker Francis Whately (Five Years)…1/2

4 September 1981. The women’s Greenham Common peace protest, against the siting of cruise missiles at the US Air Force base in Berkshire began. It was led initially by a Welsh group, Women for Life on Earth, who were the first to arrive at Greenham. The protest lasted until 2000.

Student protest was widespread across the globe in “1968”. But nowhere was it more consequential than in Bangladesh. Chartbook 315 on some of the historic stakes engaged in the modern history of Bangladesh. tinyurl.com/59ym486t

European Christian Internet Conference will build connections #WCC 🔗oikoumene.org/news/european-…

The Lost Libraries of Tunis By L Hinrichsen The libraries of Tunis are considered lost since the sack of the city by emperor Charles V in 1535. This study reconstructs for the first time the original holdings of Tunis’ medieval libraries. [open access] degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Interview with Natallia Vasilevich, Belarusian Orthodox theologian from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and member of CEC Steering Group on #PathwaystoPeace, speaking about #Ukraine, manipulation of religion, and churches' role in peace-making. Link: youtube.com/watch?v=u7iOo8…

„Es ist schön mit jemandem schweigen zu können." Gute Nacht mit Kurt Tucholsky und einem Bild von Caspar David Friedrich, Mondaufgang

Opening of the SocietasOecumenica in Warsaw on Receiving the First Council of Nicaea by president Johannes Oeldemann member of World Council of Churches (WCC) Faith and Order commission #Nicaea2025

Rita Famos zur Präsidentin der GEKE gewählt dlvr.it/TCtShY

Andrej Jrftic director World Council of Churches (WCC) Faith and Order commission speaking on Imperial Contrxt of Council of Nicaea at the Societas Oecuminica #Nicaea2025

Sr Nathalia Becquart of the synod of the Roman Catholic Church outlining the ecumenical dimension of the synodal process Societas Oecumenica at Warsaw

Members of the URC recenly joined more than 200 people from 70 member churches at the Communion of Protestant Churches of Europe 9th General Assembly held in Sibiu, Romania, to decide the basis of its work over the next six years. Lern more, see urc.org.uk/cpce-9th-gener…

Very sorry to hear the news of the death of Friedrich Schorlemmer who I first met while I was a student in the GDR. Gifted speaker and writer. Cofounder in 1989 of the opposition group Demokratischer Aufbruch. saechsische.de/deutschland/th…