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Nationwide church services, confirmations and concerts

2023-05-29T12:50:57.456Z

Highlights: Pentecost is celebrated 50 days after Easter - in the church calendar, the Easter festival season ends. In the area of the Evangelical Church of Anhalt, more than 130 confirmations were celebrated on Pentecost Sunday. There have also been baptisms and church concerts, such as a concert on the renovated organ of the village church in Brambach. In Köthen, a courtyard festival was to be held on Whit Monday in the Wolfgangstift with music and church services.



Candles burn before the Sunday service. © Silas Stein/dpa/Symbolbild

Christians in Saxony-Anhalt have celebrated the birthday of the church with church services, devotions, concerts, baptisms and confirmations. Between Arendsee and Zeitz, there were also extraordinary events in special places in the parishes on the Pentecost holidays, as the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM) and the Evangelical Church of Anhalt announced on Monday.

Magdeburg/Halle - For example, church services in the forest, at mills, river banks and in gardens were announced for the feast of Pentecost, for example on Monday in the "Garden of Faith" in the Bürgerpark Wernigerode.

The program also included a Pentecost tour with devotions from Bad Lauchstädt to Delitz (Saalekreis), a pilgrimage tour in the Harz Mountains and a bicycle service in Osterburg in the Altmark. On Whit Monday, on the occasion of the German Mill Day, a church service of the Salzwedel church district was to be celebrated at the Bockwindmühle in Jeetze.

In the area of the Evangelical Church of Anhalt, more than 130 confirmations were celebrated on Pentecost Sunday. There have also been baptisms and church concerts, such as a concert on the renovated organ of the village church in the Dessau-Roßlau district of Brambach. In Köthen, a courtyard festival was to be held on Whit Monday in the Wolfgangstift with music and church services.

Pentecost is celebrated 50 days after Easter - in the church calendar, the Easter festival season ends. Believers celebrate the sending of the Holy Spirit, who is to bring God's love to Christians. Dpa

Source: merkur

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