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Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the most serious human rights violations worldwide. Women are particularly affected—and yet it is often women who find ways to change their reality despite adverse…

Dr Stephen Lakkis has been pastor at the Christuskirche (Christ’s Church) in Pforzheim (Protestant Church in Baden) since September 2022. Before that, he worked for many years as professor of theology at various…

On 11 July 2025, the former Head of Department for Mission and Ecumenism of the Evangelical Church in Baden, Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Karl-Christoph Epting, passed away. He was 85 years old.

There are always situations where people have to leave their old homes and find new ones. Of course, there are many reasons for this. The Waldensians, a persecuted Protestant minority in Italy, were forced to leave…

Christians from Syria write in the current Schneller magazine about how they experience the developments.

Syria is back in the focus of global public attention. After the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad on December 8,…

The latest issue of EMS Insights has now been published. It focuses on the topic "Between worlds. Home and foreign".

The EMS study programme “Studies in the Middle East” (SiMO) was launched 25 years ago. Since then, the programme has sent over 80 students to the Near East School of Theology (NEST) in Beirut for an ecumenical…