Changing revenge into love: Christian schooling in Albania
When Klementina Shahini was a child, nobody would have guessed that she would start the only Protestant Christian school in Albania. She was raised in a Muslim family. Together with her husband, she came to faith in Jesus shortly after the fall of Communism.Lezha Academic Center is now the best-performing school in the region around Lezha. Klementina has worked on this for 14 years.The Albanian state does not have money for Klementina's school. Only Muslim, Orthodox, or Roman Catholic schools receive funding. Therefore, finance has always been a central challenge for the school. But so far, the school has survived.
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Why are there not more babies in Europe?
Why are there not more children born? Gudrun Kugler (MP from Austria) does not know everything about this but she has done some research for the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE. One of the problems she has found is the phenomenon of "delayed parenthood". Young people are expected to study and work for some years before they start to think about a family.Kugler suggests that this could be different and mentions the option of universities opening care units for babies so that students can have children. Another aspect is that young mothers should have a more positive reputation in society.If nothing changes, the population will shrink. Immigration is not really a solution, she warns.
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Upcoming storm around Christian schools in Norway
Christian schools in Norway might face bad weather. The government's schools' inspection has criticised one of the schools for teaching the classical Biblical view on marriage. The schools organisation KFF has helped to protest against the inspection, says secretary general Audun Raen in this episode. The schools are waiting for the government to decide and to give direction. Other sources of concern are the legal framework in which independent schools function. On the one hand, there is a piece of law that guarantees the existence of schools. But on the other hand, local authorities can veto a new start-up's entry into their town.The funding of the independent schools is unfair, Audun Raen says in this CNE podcast. Christian schools only receive 70 per cent of the state money that public schools get.
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Being the Christian voice in political Berlin
Johann Matthies has been installed as the political commissioner for the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. He will be the voice of the Christians in the German Parliament and the government. His role is there both "pastoral and prophetic", he says.His roots are in Soviet Kazakhstan, where he was born in a family of what's called Russian-Germans. As a missionary, he spent many years in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He also has fluent Russian. By having this, he could speak with Vladimir Putin during a long train journey, in the early nineties. But later on, this became essential for the continuation of his mission work in the Caucasus.As a child from a Mennonite family, he will never get enthusiastic about weapons and armies. But he will never deny Ukraine's right to self-defence. And he keeps his pacifist conviction as a private one.
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Easing abortion as modern barbarism
The United Kingdom parliament decided to decriminalise abortion. The practical effect of this is that abortion will be possible up to birth instead only 24 weeks.According to pro-life activist Ana del Pino, this is infanticide and barbarism, since the baby could survive outside the womb.It will also facilitate sex-selective abortion.
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