world newsgrams by James O. Henry, Chairman, H istory Dept., Biola Lutherans Move to Convert Jews The National Lutheran Council has embarked on an intensive campaign to convert Jews to Christianity. The Council is a cooperative agency rep resenting eight Lutheran bodies in this country with a combined mem bership of more than 5,000,000 churchgoers. Last year the Council’s Department for the Christian Ap proach to the Jewish People held a “theological consultation on t h e church and Judaism” at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Faculty members from twelve Lutheran seminaries attended the conference, along with delegates from other Protestant bodies and a few ministers from cities with large Jewish populations. Dr. H. Conrad Hoyer of Chicago, reporting on the work of the Council said, “As far as the Christian Church is concerned, we have no alternative but to bring the gospel to the Jewish people and to tell others; to neglect them or to leave them out is to discriminate against them.” German Reds Curb Religion The United States accused East Germany’s communist regime re cently of having violated religious liberty. It charged that the regime was attempting to split the evangeli cal church in Germany between East and West. The group is Germany’s largest Protestant church. The State Department said the evangelical church was one of the few institutions still operating in both East and West Germany. Lincoln White, the depart ment’s press officer, linked the Red crackdown on the Church to pro posals by Premier Khrushchev for the conversion of West Berlin into a free city unprotected by United States, British, and French troops. “This deplorable violation of religious liberty by the authorities of the re gime imposed on East Germany by the Soviet Union,” Mr. White said, “ reveals to the outside world the quality of freedom prevailing in that area of Germany now under Soviet domination.” As an example of the hostility that Mr. White said the Communists had displayed toward | the evangelical church, the official mentioned restrictions imposed re cently on travel by church representa tives from both East and West Ger many. NOVEMBER, 1961
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