A committed pro-life activist has left the Protestant Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO) together with his wife: Walter Schrader. He was the executive director of the pro-life organisation KALEB (Kooperative Arbeit Leben Ehrfürchtig Bewahren) from 1990 to 2008.
In a letter to their departing parish pastor they explain their motives. The letter is in the hands of the Protestant news agency IDEA and, according to Schrader, will also be sent to the EKBO Bishop Christian Stäblein.
The Schrader couple criticised, among other things, that in a multi-religious service on July 23 in St. Mary’s Church in Berlin, the day before the homosexual parade Christopher Street Day, a woman dressed in rainbow colours shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is greatest”). “So here, in a Christian church, a God was glorified who is not our God. Words fail us,” said the couple.
The decision to resign from the church was not easy for them, and they took this step with sadness. They expressed the hope that they would soon find a “new spiritual home” in a free church. Walter Schrader is a founding member of KALEB, the first right-to-life organisation in the German Democratic Republic. KALEB aims to protect human life from the moment of conception until natural death. The association offers pregnant women counselling, practical and financial assistance and support. It also carries out prevention work on children and young people.
https://www.idea.de/artikel/ex-kaleb-geschaeftsfuehrer-verlaesst-evangelische-kirche