On June 9th at 12.30 p.m. on ORF 2
Vienna (OTS) – Sandra Szabo will present a special edition on the occasion of “20 years of the Long Night of the Churches” in the ORF religious magazine “Orientation” on Sunday, June 9, 2024, at 12:30 p.m. on ORF 2:
What gives life direction? In which direction does the compass needle of your own existence point? The journalists from the ORF religious magazine “Orientation” mingle with visitors in Vienna, Salzburg and Straden on the occasion of the “Long Night of the Churches” and provide insights into the major church event. With the help of mobile “wheels of fortune” they also ask what really matters in life. Celebrities and representatives of various churches and religious communities are also asked about their personal life orientation.
The reason for the game and conversation project is the 20th anniversary of the “Long Night of the Churches”. Since 2005, Christian churches across Austria have been opening their doors to make people want to go to church with unusual spiritual offerings, concerts, discussions, art installations or extraordinary happenings. Non-Christian religious communities such as the Islamic Religious Community of Salzburg, Jews in Salzburg and the Austrian Buddhist Religious Society are now also taking part.
In Vienna, attractions such as a dance floor in the Lutheran city church, a “speed talking” with Cardinal Christoph Schönborn or a concert with Ernst Molden are on the program. In Salzburg you can float over the cathedral square in a crane, listen to the singer Ina Regen in the Andräkirche or get your hair cut in the Sacellum. In Straden, southeast Styria, young people put on an extravagant fashion show to ask what makes church attractive. The direction of the social compass needle is also discussed when topics such as anti-Semitism or war and peace are discussed.
As a guest of “Orientation” presenter Sandra Szabo, who will this time mingle with visitors around the Votive Church in Vienna, political scientist Kathrin Stainer-Hämmerle analyzes what an event like the “Long Night of the Churches” can do for religious communities can also bring in the long term.