On February 4th at 12.30 p.m. on ORF 2
Vienna (OTS) – Sandra Szabo will present the following articles in the ORF religious magazine “Orientation” on Sunday, February 4, 2024, at 12:30 p.m. on ORF 2:
Dark legacy: cases of abuse in the Protestant church
Cases of abuse in the Roman Catholic Church have been the focus of public interest for decades. Now cases in the Protestant church and its institutions are also coming to light. As a recent study in Germany shows, 2,225 people have been victims of sexual violence there since 1946. The research team calls this the “tip of the tip of the iceberg.” What is the situation in this country when it comes to coming to terms with and preventing abuse in the Protestant church? Sandra Szabo did some research.
Pious and controversial: Ultra-Orthodox in Israel
Spiegel bestselling author Tuvia Tenenbom is a liberal essayist who commutes between New York and Hamburg. But he grew up in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem. At 17 he left the world of prohibitions and regulations. Now Tuvia Tenenbom has returned to his old home and has written a book about it. “God speaks Yiddish” it says and sheds light on the way of life of today’s ultra-Orthodox, which is highly controversial in Israeli society. During his time in Jerusalem, the momentous attack on Israel by the terrorist organization Hamas occurred. Gundi Lamprecht met the author in Vienna.
Difficult future: Street children in Lagos
The children’s charity UNICEF estimates that between 100 and 200 million children worldwide live on the streets. Nobody knows the exact number because many of them do not appear in any official documents. One person who looks after street children in Nigeria is the Salesian Don Bosco Fr. Linus NNkemjmaka Onyenagubor. Together with the development organization “Youth One World”, a center for street children is currently being completed in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos. Father Linus was a guest in Vienna these days and told students at the Wenzgasse high school in Hietzing about his daily work on the streets in Lagos. Mariella Kogler was there.
Who cares? Suffering and care in Judaism
How does Judaism deal with suffering, need and care? The new exhibition in the Jewish Museum Vienna, which can be seen until September 1st, is dedicated to these questions under the title “Who cares?” The need to help is deeply rooted in Judaism and is found in ancient commandments of charity and improving the world. Based on the Jewish commandments, the exhibition takes a tour of Vienna as a center of medical research and a place of psychological and social care from the 19th century to the present day. Karoline Thaler has already visited the exhibition.