Week for life
The week for life is an action week (starts on the second Saturday after Easter Sunday) of the Protestant and Catholic churches in Germany with an annually changing focus.
It has been celebrated since 1991 and goes back to an initiative of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) and the German Bishops' Conference (DBK). The Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) has also participated in this initiative since 1994 .
The week itself consists of events in church institutions and parishes, which are also intended to serve as a forum for information and discussion and as an expression of opinion by the churches in Germany. From the point of view of the self-claims of the participating churches, the week for life serves to promote social awareness of the dangers to human life, which is called for protection.
Topics of the Week for Life 1991–2021
- 2020 (postponed to 2021) Living to Die
- Protect life in 2019. Accompany people. Prevent suicides.
- 2018 desire to have children. Desired child. Our kid!
- 2017 Desire for children - Desired child - Designer baby: How far do you go?
- 2016 World and self-creation in old age
- 2015 to die with dignity
- 2014 Lord, in your hands
- 2013 Committed to life: Shaping cohesion
- 2012 Committed to life: with all generations
- 2011 Committed to life: Use with profit
- 2010 Healthy or Sick - Loved by God / Healthy Conditions
- 2009 Healthy or sick - loved by God / Living together with limits
- 2008 Healthy or sick - loved by God / health - greatest good?
- 2007 KinderSegen - Hope for life / Going into the future with children
- 2006 KinderSegen - Hope for Life / Entrusted to us from the beginning
- 2005 KinderSegen - Hope for Life / A new departure with children
- 2004 For God's sake for people! / Human dignity at the end of life
- 2003 For God's sake for people! / Chances and Limits of Medical Progress
- 2002 For God's sake for people! / Choose life instead of choosing from the start
- 2001 Caring for people with dignity
- 2000 life as God's image
- 1999 God's earth - made for living / Our responsibility for creation
- 1998 What you can rely on / Living together in marriage and family
- 1997 Every child is l (i) worth living / accepting life instead of choosing
- 1996 Life to the end / death as part of life
- 1995 sense instead of addiction
- 1994 living together unhindered
- 1993 life in old age
- 1992 Child-friendly society
- 1991 Protection of the unborn child
Web links
- www.ekd.de: Week for Life , archived link from September 29, 2007, accessed on June 15, 2020.
- http://woche-fuer-das-leben.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ ZDF : Churches move suicide prevention into focus , May 4, 2019, accessed on June 15, 2020