“We wanted him”

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The religious priest Heiner Wilmer becomes the new bishop of Hildesheim. Representatives from the Church and politics congratulate the clergyman on his appointment. "We wanted it", the diocesan administrator is pleased.

The 56-year-old religious priest Heiner Wilmer is to be consecrated bishop in September in the Mariendom, the Vatican and the diocese of Hildesheim announced Friday. The former Superior General of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart priests moves from Rome to the Lower Saxon bishop's city and succeeds Norbert Trelle, who had been at the head of the diocese for eleven years.

Marx: Religious experience a good prerequisite for the office of bishop

The chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, congratulated Wilmer. The experience as a superior in the order and the many years of pastoral work are good prerequisites for the leadership of the diocese, said Marx. Wilmer is prepared for the new office in the best way.

Especially in northern Germany, it is essential that the new bishop promote the togetherness of all Christians, said Diocesan Administrator Nikolaus Schwedtfeger, who will lead the diocese until the new bishop is inaugurated. The appropriate handling of victims of sexualized violence also remains a decisive task.

"My hopes find a strong resonance in Heiner Wilmer" said Schwerdtfeger. "We have wanted him."That Wilmer comes to Hildesheim, makes him glad and grateful with all his heart.

Well suited in many respects

The German Province of the Priests of the Sacred Heart has reacted with joy to the appointment of a bishop for its religious superior. The diocese in Hildesheim receives a very good bishop, said the German provincial, Father Heinz Lau. Father Wilmer is in many respects well suited for the episcopate – humanly, spiritually, pastorally, and in leadership tasks.

The Archbishop of Hamburg Stefan Hebe welcomed his new brother priest. With Wilmer, an expert in theology, education and with great leadership experience will become bishop, he said.

"I am pleased that the new bishop of Hildesheim comes from our diocese, from Schapen," said Osnabruck Bishop Franz-Josef Bode. He had long led the Gymnasium Leoninum in Handrup with ideas and prudence.

Malteser: "To everything God's blessing"

Also the Malteser in the diocese of Hildesheim congratulate Father Dr. Heiner Wilmer SCJ cordially to the appointment as bishop of Hildesheim. "For his episcopal ministry, we Maltese wish the newly appointed a seeing eye, an open ear, good judgment and, above all, God's blessing," reads an official statement.

"We will faithfully stand by Father Wilmer, as we did his predecessors, in service to others, in accordance with our motto: 'Tuitio fidei et obsequium pauperum – witnessing to the faith and helping those in need'."

Evangelical Lutheran Church: important impulses for ecumenism

For the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover, Bishop Ralf Meister expressed congratulations. He was very pleased that Wilmer had already mentioned his anticipation of ecumenical solidarity in his introduction, said Meister's letter published on Friday. He, too, is looking forward to continuing and deepening the "trusting relationship.

The churches are facing common challenges, said the regional bishop. Especially social questions need ecumenical answers. It is the common mission of all Christians to help the poor and needy. "I am sure that you will bring important impulses into our cooperation from your spiritual path and your solidarity with Lower Saxony."

Congratulations from the government of Lower Saxony

The government of Lower Saxony also congratulated the priest Heiner Wilmer on his appointment as bishop of Hildesheim. "I am very much looking forward to a continued good and constructive cooperation with the Catholic Church and the diocese of Hildesheim," said Minister President Stephan Weil (SPD) on Friday in Hanover.

With Wilmer, the state government now has a competent contact person again who can show an impressive curriculum vitae that is also influenced by Lower Saxony. "In addition to his religious expertise, his extensive pedagogical experience will help make him an important interlocutor for us," Weil said.

From the farm in Emsland to Rome

Wilmer was elected on 9. Born April 1961 in Schapen in Emsland and grew up on a farm. After graduating in 1980 from the Leoninum in Handrup, a high school run by the Sacred Heart priests, he entered the order's novitiate in Freiburg.

From 1981 to 1986, he studied theology in Freiburg and Romance languages and literature in Paris. He was ordained a priest in 1987. He then went to Rome to the Pontifical Gregorian University to study French philosophy.

After earning a doctorate in theology and a teaching degree in history, Wilmer went to the U.S. in 1997 for a year to teach at a Jesuit high school in New York's Bronx.

"Hunger for freedom" – book about Christian roots

Wilmer became provincial of the German Province of the Sacred Heart Priests in 2007, and since 2015 has served as superior general in Rome, heading the order, which is involved in education and other areas. In 2013, he published the book "God is not nice" about his faith and his life decision to become a priest.

In March, he published "Hunger for Freedom" about the Christian roots of the Occident. Numerous challenges await the new bishop in Hildesheim. Among other things, he will have to restore the credibility of the church there after several allegations of abuse. The diocese counts about 610.000 Catholics and stretches from the Harz Mountains to the North Sea.

Scientists believe a steep increase in uranium concentration in the air in British measuring points to the bombing wave with du-ammunition ended at the end of Marz 2003

Praved uranium (DU), which increases the impact force of ammunition, for example, for the bunkering GBU bombs, has also been used in the invasion of Iraq of American and British troops. How much exactly, is unknown, but it was allowed to have been several hundred tons, possibly up to 2.000 tons, which were mostly thrown over the city. Pressed uranium is massive and falls in the production of focal centers for nuclear power plants. You argue the genes, causes cancer and can cause a whole series of other health damage. However, it has been controversial since the first Iraq war 1991, whether and how much the radioactivity released by du-ammunition is harmful to the people who are exposed to it. Should the report of British scientists be true that radioactive particles that can be absorbed by the lungs can be reached from Iraq to the Gobritain, then the discussion was taken over the risks of du-ammunition a whole new dimension to take into account.

Have the Ultus of the Iraq war also contaminated Europe?

Loading an A-10 with 30mm-du-shot. The on-board cannon can fire between 2000 and 4000 shots per minute. Image: USAF

The Pentagon designates – as well as the Nato – as largely immaisingly and has also refused to decontaminate the bombarded places in Iraq. Former US soldiers who had participated in the first Iraq war made u.a. the radiation from you outstanding for the so-called golf war syndrome responsible. In Iraq, she was responsible for allegedly increased cancer in children and for birth defects. How dangerous you, which is mainly from uranium-238, is actual, is controversial. The half-life is very long with 4.5 billion years.

When impacting a du-projectile, the uranium core explains itself. In this case, part of the you to aerosol, ie too fine dust, which is required by the wind whisker routes and can be absorbed by the breathing. The rest is distributed in the immediate vicinity where people can get into contact with him. Uranium oxide dust reaches the groundwater, also the corrosion of du-ammunition gives the substance. A UNEP study of places in Serbia and Montenegro, which was bombed with du-ammunition, discovered three years after the bombing of du particles in the air. In 2004, a study concluded that the uranium enriched in the urine of civilians and soldiers in Iraq (contaminated!To).

The coarse part of the du ammunition, which are fired on attacks of A10 fighters, penetrate into the ground without burning and releasing uranium oxide dust. Scientist of the Institute for Planter Food and Soil Science of the Federal Research Institute for Agriculture (FAL) in Braunschweig have found that after long-term investigations found that

Uranium introduced into the ground as a uranium oxide by physicochemical and biological excursions and is detachable for plants. After 3 years of whereabouts, up to 40% of the supplied uran’s federated uranium were transferred to mobile connections. Such mobile uranium compounds can be added to either plants, or relocated into soil and waxes. … the uranium concentrations of the plants were already high in the lowest load levels by up to a thousand times than in the controls. The FAL scientists also found that the mobilization of the uranium with decreasing fertility of the soil (lower pH values, lower levels of mineral plant rods, especially phosphorus). Little fertile ground are just typical of crisis areas and the population is dependent on self-catering from their own ground.

The A-10 in action. Image: USAF

The WHO recommends a closer examination of the water and the food for conflicts and recommends decontamination of burdened places.

British scientists have now been discovered that there has been an increase in uranium load in the atmosphere for four times the uranium burden in the atmosphere for four timesings at FUNF measuring points in Aldermaston at Funf Weapons Establishment. The scientists Saoirse Morgan and Chris Busby from the University of Liverpool, expert on the German radioactivity, the land of Green Audit and Advisor to the British Government, have put on the British Ministry of Defense on the New Information Freedom Act, after the publication of the measurement results has been set since 1999. Although they had the data from the years 2000 to 2004, with the exception of the measurement results from the beginning of 2003. But that was just the time when the Iraq war started with the invasion and massive bombing after the motto shock-and-awe. Within 24 hours with 1.500 bombs and rockets also used coarse amounts to destroy buildings and bunkers. Hundreds of thousands of "Silver Bullets", which are covered with you, were fired from the on-board cannons of the A-10 fighter aircraft.

Only after further drilling the hords jerked out the missing data. When the scientists evaluated the measurement results of four stations and quantities in the AWE between 2000 and 2004, they established a significant increase in the radioactivity ended by uranium in the air of the air in the air of Marz 2003, which also alerted the British environmental workforce, even if the values are still Layer within the UP. On average, there is a background radiation of 155 Nano-Becquerel per cubic meter in the measuring range, end Marz until mid-April he rose to 650. There was a less strong peak at the beginning of 2002, in the time so, when Tora Bora was bombarded by the US Air Force. The scientists do not make any more detailed information about the health of health, but ame that the suspension of additional particles can be quite dangerous.

For Busby and Morgan, there is a connection with the bombings with BU ammunition. Both the measured values in the nuclear armor system and outside are the highest bombardment phase, the measured values of the external measuring stations were high, which speaks for busby and Morgan Dafur that no incident in the AWE is responsible. The first peak was on the 27th. Marz, so the aerosols had to start the bombing on 19. Marz disseminates in these from Iraq in the atmosphere and transported with winds to Europe. The weather reports at this time love this as possible appearing, it also reached sand from the Sahara to the Gobritain, which were a high over Europe, a deep on the Atlantic and a constant wind from sadial directions were also at this time. Show the two, the two that "du-weapons contaminate both the people on site as well as hundreds and thousands of miles away".

Busby and Morgan point out that most of the reports such as the Royal Society ame that the radioactive aerosols were distributed only a few meters around the impact. But this contradicts the UNEP examination, which could prove two years later in the air in Montenegro and Bosnia particles. Busby themselves can still determine the uranium degraded for investigations of rainwater supplies in Kosovo for nine months after the use of du-ammunition. Busby leads the rejection of the dissemination of du-aerosols over wide areas to the amption about the rough of the particles back. The Royal Society went from particles in the coarse of 1 to 5 microns, but investigations of the US militar with finer filters from the 80s had shown that almost half of the particles be smaller than 1 micron. Thus, the particles were more likely to behave like gas and could be transported like the radioactive gases after the Chernobyl accident also over rough distances.

The British Ministry of Defense is denied. It is impossible that depressed uranium spread so far spread. The environmental doctors declared that other measuring stations had not shown any comparable increase. Some experts drove this to other environmental sources. Brian Spatt, who led the team for a report of the Royal Society on Du-ammunition, also doubt that the du-ammunition is the cause. Certainly, however, the massive bombing had released the uranium from the ground, he gives concerns. The report of the Royal Society studied the health risk as relatively low, but recommended decontamination of the places concerned and a medical examination of the British soldiers.

This Wednesday, the church relief organizations "Bread for the World" and Misereor are again asking for support for their projects around the world in the ZDF Donations Gala. The money is used to support disadvantaged people.

In the live broadcast on 2. December moderator Carmen fog expected among other things star tenor Jonas Kaufmann and Show greats such as Paul Young, communicated the two relief organizations on Monday. For "The most beautiful Christmas hits" from 20.15 o'clock would have also Die Hohner, Beatrice Egli, Marianne rose mountain or Hansi Hinterseer agreed to come over with Christmas songs.

The donations go to worldwide project work and are aimed at long-term and sustainable support for disadvantaged people and a dignified life for all, as "Brot fur die Welt" and Misereor explained.

Projects to be presented as examples

Four exemplary projects will be presented in short film clips in the gala broadcast, including the work of the Philippine Misereor partner organization Preda for young women who have experienced sexual violence in poor conditions and have been forced into prostitution. A film also leads to Mozambique, where the "Bread for the World" partner organization Renascer is campaigning against child labor at a garbage dump on the outskirts of the capital Maputo.

Support for people in need is particularly important during the Corona pandemic, the two aid organizations appealed. Almost 2.6 million euros were collected last year.

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