The Melanchthon House in Bretten (Germany)
The great humanist and famous reformer Philipp Melanchthon, born in Bretten in 1497, was an intimate friend and collaborator, of Luther. A museum in Bretten bears his name, it was...
Creation of the United Protestant Church of France (EPUF)
Years of conciliation work between the Reformed Church of France (ERF) and the Lutheran Evangelical Church of France (EELF) resulted in the union made possible by the Leuenberg Concord of...
Creation of the National Council of Evangelicals of France (CNEF)
The National Council of Evangelicals of France brings together most of the Unions of Evangelical Churches, including the Pentecostal churches, particularly the Assemblies of God. Some of the Unions of...
Creation of the Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine (UEPAL)
The Lutheran Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine (ECAAL) and the Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine (ERAL) pooled services while retaining their concordat status and to...
Creation of the Council of Christian Churches in France
The Council of Christian Churches in France (CECEF) is made up of delegations from Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic Churches. Its mission is to facilitate reflection and potentially common...
Publication of the TOB: the French Ecumenical Translation of the Bible
The French Ecumenical Translation of the Bible (TOB) was completed. The work conducted by Catholic, Reformed and Lutheran teams, with occasional help from the orthodox churches benefited from remarkable circumstances:...
The Concord of Leuenberg
The signing in 1973 of the Concord of Leuenberg, a small Swiss city, was the result of discussions begun in 1960 between ministers and heads of Lutheran and Reformed Churches...
Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), born in Strasbourg, was a theologian (professor at the theology school of Strasbourg) musician (famous organist), philosopher (a specialist in Kant and European religions), and also a...
Creation of the World Council of Churches
The founding assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) met in Amsterdam. This was the result of years of work begun during the Missionary Conference of Edinburgh in 1910...
Boegner’s intervention in favor of the Jews
On March 26, minister Marc Boegner, in the name of the National Council of the Reformed Church in France for which he served as president, wrote a letter to the...
The Barmen Declaration
On May 31, the ministers of the German evangelical church met as a clandestine synod in the suburbs of Wuppertal (Rhineland-Palatinate), in Barmen. They declared, in a confession of faith,...
Creation of the EEUDF (Unionist Guides and Scouts of France)
This Protestant youth education movement focused on obedience was founded in 1909-1911, as a version of the scouting movement initiated by Lord Baden-Powell in 1907 in Great Britain. The movement...
World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh
The different Protestant and Anglican missionary societies came together to avoid any competition in the work to evangelize the non-Christian world. Cradle of ecumenism, first predominantly Anglo-Saxon, then globalized, it...
Law Separating Church and State
The law of December 9, 1905 concerning the separation of Church and State established and defined secularism in France. It guaranteed freedom of worship in the spirit of the Revolution...
Creation of the Christian Socialist Movement
Christian Socialism was created at the initiative of a number of ministers, including Tommy Fallot. The aim was to confront Christian faith with the concrete realities of the social environment....
Creation of the World Christian Student Federation (WCSF)
John Mott founded the World Christian Student Federation in New York City. An assembly of various youth groups, the WCSF defines itself as an ecumenical movement of openness, dialogue and...