“Unite the Protestant family. Rethinking
Protestantism
.
To contribute to the Republic.”
This is the mission, to say the least ambitious, that Christian Krieger has set himself, who takes over this Friday at the head of the Protestant Federation of France.
For the first time since its creation in 1905, when Alsace-Moselle was German, an Alsatian pastor, from a concordat region, moved to rue de Clichy.
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"His name imposed itself quite quickly"
, testifies his predecessor, Pastor François Clavairoly, who symbolically transmitted to him the "Bible of the federation", which goes from president to president.
Christian Krieger is a man of experience who does not panic when there is a confit.
He knows how to listen to others
Valérie Duval-Poujol, Baptist theologian
At 58, the Strasbourg resident faces many challenges.
"He…
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