Christian Internet working group

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The Christliche InterNet-Arbeitsgemeinschaft eV ( CINA ) was founded in 1996 by eleven evangelical organizations as a common platform for evangelical mission and services on the Internet . In the founding phase, the association ProChrist e. V. with its then managing director Frieder Trommer . Originally intended as an editorial portal and association platform, various Internet services such as B. server hosting, training and advice, through to live reporting of events.

With the offer of classic provider services (hosting, web design, web programming), the company deliberately entered into competition with cid - christian internet service , which means that a collaboration that began in the beginning was no longer pursued in 1997.

In 2002 the CINA became part of the ERF and moved into the ERF media house in Wetzlar. In 2008, the division was renamed ERF online . Since a restructuring on October 1, 2008, the CINA projects and services have been run under the name ERF Online (projects) and ERF mediaservice GmbH (services).

The best-known content-related projects of the CINA included the counselor on Christian faith Nikodemus.Net (replaced by www.mehrglauben.de in March 2010) and the evangelistic online magazine jesus-online.de , which was taken over from private initiators and discontinued in December 2007 has been. The offer for children JoeMax.de as well as the online Bible Bibleserver.com with over 40 current and historical Bible translations will continue to be operated by ERF Online.

The live reporting of events was carried out by ERF mediaservice GmbH . Server hosting, support for customer websites and customer projects for customers taken over by CINA were discontinued by the ERF on December 31, 2012.

The CINA worked on the basis of the German Evangelical Alliance and since 2002 it was also the internet service of the Evangeliums-Rundfunk, today ERF Medien . Together with the ERF, she operated the Internet portal Glaube24.de , which was transferred to www.erf.de in July 2008.

Joachim Stängle was head and managing director until August 15, 2007 , who then moved to the management team of the Christian Media Foundation . The management of the CINA, from which ERF Online emerged , was taken over by Dr. Jörg Dechert , who was later (2014) appointed CEO of ERF Medien .

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  1. ↑ Press release on the renaming of September 20, 2008: http://www.erf.de/index.php?node=4355&content_item=769
  2. ↑ Press release on the start of www.mehrglauben.de from February 25, 2010: http://www.erf.de/index.php?node=4355&content_item=893
  3. ↑ Press release on the change from www.glaube24.de of July 24, 2008: http://www.erf.de/index.php?node=4355&content_item=753