Swedish health authorities call for caution in transgender care

A German day care centre in Apen, Lower Saxony, has been under attack. A lesbian couple feels hurt by the fact that the couple that runs the facility is “convinced that it is God’s plan that husbands and wives should form a marriage community.”

Still covered with mud. That's the situation three weeks after the flood in the town of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. Aid workers in the Ahr Valley are busy everywhere. The Martin-Luther-Kirche has also had a hard time. The pastors of the Protestant community of Bad Neuenahr are doing all they can to help people. "Our place is here, where God has placed us."

As the cost of living continues to rise, the diaconate of churches also gets busier. Quietly, deacons do their work. What dilemmas do they encounter?