L’évêque Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, président du Conseil de l’Église évangélique d’Allemagne, et le cardinal Reinhard Marx, archevêque de Munich et ancien président de la Conférence des évêques allemands, ont reçu le prix de la paix d’Augsbourg 2020 pour leur «volonté inconditionnelle de vivre ensemble en paix».
Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, chair of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, and Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop in Munich and former president of the German Bishops’ Conference, were awarded the 2020 Augsburg Peace Prize for their “unconditional will to live together in peace.”
The WCC continues to receive messages of thanksgiving and encouragement from member churches, sister organizations and the wider ecumenical movement as the fellowship marks 70 years in working for Christian unity and action.
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit congratulated Rev. Dr Martin Junge, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, for receiving the Augsburg Peace Prize on 20 October in Augsburg, Germany.
