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Faith Matters 56 4675 | 01–60 people places DOCUMENTARY 30 MIN. VeRsIoNs English, German Arabic: 37 – 60 Spanish: 01–17, 19 –60 RIGHTs Worldwide, VOD, Mobile oRDeR NUMBeR Faith Matters 56 4675 | 01–60 Faith provides many people with a framework for life and a moral code. This series provides insights into matters of faith, with reports on contemporary Catholic and Protestant communi- ties across the world. The main focus is on the purpose of existence, Christian values and social responsibility, as well as contributions Christians make to society, culture and the arts. Faith Matters portrays the everyday life of Christians; it reports on the latest events in the Christian community and on the work of churches in Germany and worldwide. 01 Saints and Spirits From the Wartburg to Brazil 02 Stones for the Dead – In Remembrance Central Holocaust Monument in Berlin 03 From Child Soldier to World Youth Help for Liberia’s Underage Combatants 04 Water for Nigeria 05 The Work of the Berlin City Mission Helping the Homeless in Central Berlin 06 “Why Luther Appeals to Me” Ecumenical Positions of a Dominican Priest 07 Homeland and Church Foreigner Communities in Germany 08 The Wonder of Music at Pentecost Music Knows No Language Barriers 09 Bread and Wine From the Dionysos Cult to Holy Communion 10 Perspiration and Prayer Church and Sport 11 The End of Family? 12 Everyone Wants a Say Protestant Churches Seek to Pull Together 13 Champion of the Poor – A Cardinal and his Envoys Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez and the Lay Preachers of Honduras dw transtel people places DOCUMENTARY 30 MIN. VeRsIoNs 14 The Rebirth of the Baroque – How Bach came to Bahia English, German A German Conductor Brings Back Baroque Music to Salvador da Bahia Arabic: 37 – 60 Spanish: 01–17, 19 – 60 15 Providing a Touch of Home A German Woman Priest in Beirut RIGHTs Worldwide, VOD, Mobile 16 God Has More than One Name oRDeR NUMBeR 17 Young, Devout, Political 56 4675 | 01– 60 Christians in the German Parliament 18 Helen Zille – Mayor of Cape Town Helen Zille, a former mayor of Cape Town, wants to plant a seed of hope in the fight against corruption and violence. She is a member of the Democratic Alliance, and was the only victor in a local authority election not to belong to the ANC. As a journalist, and later as a member of parliament and minister of education for Cape Province, she worked for a just balance between blacks and whites. 19 Sister Gisela – A Life Dedicated to Helping Others For more than forty years Sister Gisela Borowka has been trying to help people in eastern Indonesia. Born in Thuringia 72 years ago, retirement is the last thing on her mind. After a stay in Ethiopia in 1963, she went to help leprosy patients in Indonesia. In 1991 she went to the eastern Indonesian island of Alor and initially worked in leprosy aftercare. Leprosy was successfully contained by effective therapies and education. Sister Gisela was looking for a new task. For the last ten years she has devoted her life to caring for orphans. This programme reports on the life and work of this extraordinary woman. Her work with lep- ers inspired the renowned German author Luise Rinser to write a book about her. 20 Protestants in China Today, China is still officially atheist but its constitution now also allows “freedom of religious belief”. Under that umbrella, new churches are being built across the country, religious services held in converted factory bays. More is booming in China than just the economy; after decades of suppression, religion is also on the rise. 21 “O Come, My Soul with Singing” – 400 Years of Hymns by Paul Gerhardt Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676) was a pastor in a time ravaged by war. The poet experienced the death of his wife and four children, and was removed from his position at Berlin’s St. Nikolai church by the prince-elect, due to a dispute regarding confessions between the Lutherans and Reformists. Traditional hymns from Paul Gerhardt are moving today as they were 400 years ago. 22 The Future Needs Hope – MISEREOR Marks 50 Years in Burundi Together with the Congo, Burundi in central Africa was the first country in which the Catholic relief organization MISEREOR became active. Throughout all the upheavals of civil war MISEREOR has been supporting projects in Burundi for fifty years. Burundi is still one of the world’s poorest countries. More than ten years of civil war and forty years of military dictatorship have pushed it to the brink of ruin. The film forms a bridge from MISEREOR’s origins in Burundi to the situation today. Even though conditions have changed vastly over the last fifty years, MISEREOR has continued to uphold one principle: that of providing help “for the poorest of the poor, irrespective of creed or ethnicity”. And it does so in solidarity with church organizations on the spot who adapt aid to the respec- tive culture and needs. dw transtel people places DOCUMENTARY 30 MIN. VeRsIoNs 23 Fatima and Sumaya – A Moslem-Christian Friendship in Palestine English, German Fatima, the daughter of a famous Bedouin sheikh in the Judaean Desert, and Sumaya, a Arabic: 37 – 60 farmer’s daughter from near Ramallah in the West Bank, have been close friends for over Spanish: 01–17, 19 – 60 fifty years. They both attended a Protestant school in Bethlehem where Christians and Moslems are taught together. Today Sumaya Farhat-Naser is an author and peace activist RIGHTs and Fatima helps families with disabled children. Worldwide, VOD, Mobile 24 Rescuing the Torah Scroll – A Christian and Jewish Story of Courage oRDeR NUMBeR During the night of the 9th and 10th of November 1938, the first in a series of pogroms 56 4675 | 01– 60 launched by the Nazis against the Jews, the Catholic priest Gustav Meinertz risked his life to rescue a Torah roll from a burning synagogue in Cologne. After the war, he returned it to the vestigial Jewish community. Sixty-nine years later in 2007, the valuable scrip- ture was sent to Jerusalem for restoration paid for by the archbishopric of Cologne. The process removed the fire damage that had made it impossible to use the Torah in religious services, and in a memorial service, it was formally returned to the Torah shrine at the Cologne synagogue. 25 What the Church Is Doing with its Churches More and more people are rediscovering religion, but this doesn’t necessarily mean they follow a direct route into the church. Germany is full of churches – some 25,000 in all. Sa- cred architecture has a long tradition here. But congregations are becoming ever smaller, and funds ever shorter. It is still rare that a house of worship is demolished. But other proposals are under consideration, including sale, conversion or alternative use. 26 Rwanda Looking for Reconciliation A million people were massacred in the east African country of Rwanda in 1994. Most of the victims were members of the Tutsi ethnic group, and moderate Hutus. Most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. The killing was triggered by the death of Rwanda’s Hutu president, but animosity between the two ethnic groups had been stoked much earlier, during the colonial period. Today, the church is trying to help people deal with the trauma of the genocide, which still casts a long shadow over Rwanda. 27 Emergency Pastoral Care – Preparation for a Pandemic We talk of a pandemic when an infectious disease spreads not only from country to country but also from one continent to another. Epidemics that claim millions of lives are nothing new. Europe has been struck by the plague many times in its history. Between 1918 and 1920 over 25 million people died from the Spanish Flu. AIDS is also a pandemic, and world-wide phenomena like bird flu give justified cause for concern. With this ques- tion in mind, pastoral workers have been taking part in a nation-wide disaster control exercise here in Germany. 28 Wealth Goes – Poverty Stays: Gold Mining in the Peruvian Andes The Catholic priest Marco Arana, winner of Peru’s most prominent human rights prize in 2004, is more than just a representative of the church. For seven years now, his organisa- tion GRUFIDES has been fighting for the rights of indigenous people living around the largest gold mine in Latin America, the Yanacocha gold mine in northern Peru. He and his co-workers are engaged in tireless mediation between local farmers and the mining company, and run an information campaign concerning the ecological consequences of gold mining. dw transtel people places DOCUMENTARY 30 MIN. VeRsIoNs 29 “Like a Family” – Wichern, Founder of Modern Paedagogics English, German Through his work as a priest in the mid-18th century, Johann Hinrich Wichern encoun- Arabic: 37 – 60 tered poverty-stricken districts of Hamburg. Realising the extent of the neglect, he Spanish: 01–17, 19 – 60 founded a refuge for neglected and difficult children. The children lived in a structured environment similar to that of a large family, with 10-12 children together with one guard- RIGHTs ian. It was a revolutionary educational model that has changed little over the years. Worldwide, VOD, Mobile 30 You Are My God: I Search for You – The Poetry of the Psalms oRDeR NUMBeR 150 prayers and songs make up the Book of Psalms. Read as poetry, they number among 56 4675 | 01– 60 the great works of world literature. They venture something neither heard nor seen before in writing: a personal response to God. The journalist sets out to plumb the mysteries of the Book of Psalms that, though replete with the pain and horror of Earthly existence, sings out in praise and exaltation.
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