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A new president for Protestants

2022-06-30T17:15:35.746Z


PORTRAIT - Christian Krieger, Alsatian pastor, takes the head of the Protestant Federation of France.


“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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Source: lefigaro

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