Lehmann before “tribunal

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A scandal at a congress of the Federation: Actually, the bishop of Mainz, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, wanted to discuss the society of values. In the end, he had to take offense instead. The background is the alleged discriminatory treatment of homosexuals by the Catholic Church. Lehmann himself considered himself to be in front of a "tribunal".

Clear criticism of the Catholic Church prompted an appearance by Cardinal Karl Lehmann at the 1. Congress of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency accompanied. The spokesman for the Lesbian and Gay Association (LSVD), Manfred Bruns, called Lehmann a "grand master of discrimination" afterwards on Wednesday and accused him of hypocrisy. He indirectly drew a comparison with the persecution of homosexuals during the Nazi era.The former chairman of the German Bishops' Conference engaged in a debate with Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann after delivering a keynote speech on the topic of "value society as an economic factor". Even before the final round of questions, several questioners interrupted the discussion with accusations that the Catholic Church discriminates against homosexual employees and fires them if they enter into a civil partnership.Lehmann said such questions would be clarified in concrete conversation. The church's labor-law guidelines stipulate "that there is not simply a hatchet, but a pastoral discussion". At the same time, he accused the critics of trying to turn the event into a tribunal. He was not prepared to do that, moreover, he did not know the concrete cases and could not review them now.

Criticism also of the anti-discrimination stela LSVD spokesman Bruns, one of the questioners, subsequently accused the cardinal of not having addressed the "severe discrimination" practiced by the Catholic Church at any point in his speech. If church employees entered into a registered civil partnership, they would have to be dismissed according to a decision of the Permanent Council of the Bishops' Conference. This is morally reprehensible and deeply anti-social. In view of such actions, homosexual church employees today would have to hide and adapt, the 74-year-old said. This reminded him of how he himself had had to behave during the National Socialist era and in the 1950s.At the same time, Bruns expressed criticism of the anti-discrimination agency. Lehmann's invitation showed how "flimsy" its work was. The institution was established at the beginning of 2007 in the wake of the General Equal Treatment Act, which was intended to implement the European directives on the prevention of discrimination.

Lehmann urges business to take ethical responsibility Earlier, Lehmann had appealed to the business community to take responsibility for society and to act according to ethical standards. If it wants to be part of society, it must also be judged by the values of the society in which it operates and skims off profits. The cardinal went on to emphasize that market rules only work in the long term if they are supported by a basic moral consensus.Rene Obermann, Chairman of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom, also called ethical principles indispensable for the economy. A "partly unbridled, partly anarchic globalization" needs ethical impulses. "Nothing works without ethics," he opined, otherwise companies would not be able to exist. Ethics, however, should not be confused with social romanticism.Obermann also spoke of the special responsibility of those who – as managers, for example – benefit greatly from globalization processes. Of course they should give more back to society. The Deutsche Telekom CEO continued to express his conviction that ethical orientations of the churches had significance far beyond the circle of church members. In his estimation, the church also provides the value framework for many who have turned away from the institution of the church.At the same time, Lehmann reaffirmed the role of the classic entrepreneur.In many cases, it is managers who have no stake in the capital or tradition of a company, but then cut jobs with reference to cost prere or with an eye on the share price.

In addition to climate change, a failed agricultural policy, Burger War and the fatal interference of foreign force causes for the need of more than 10 million people

The help for the hungry people at the Horn of Africa has started. About an airbrucke of Nairobi after Mogadishu, urgently needed foods can be flown into the region. But these international efforts come far into spat. Only after the images of emaciated manners and women and their dying children flickered the television screens worldwide, the auxiliary machinery.

From the large thirsty catastrophe for 60 years, more than ten million people should be affected, around 500.000 threatens acute hungry death. Main stock bearings are once again the children. Chaotic, hopeless Africa now think of many. But this catastrophe is not a nature event, it was avoidable at least in this dimension. Climate change, a missed agricultural policy, Burger War and fatal interference of foreign force is the political causes for the dramatic situation.

The region knows the periodic absence of rainfall, but there was no durre in this outlet yet. For climate experts, at the Horn of Africa, where she has warned for years. Durrephases become more intense and long, to take heavy rain and flood disasters, as they are observed in other parts of Kenya. The ongoing durre in the north of Kenya, in the border area to Athiopia and Somalia is a template of climate change.

Avoidable hunger catastrophe at the horn of Africa

Escape Waiting in front of the UNHCR-BURO in the IFO camp, Dadaab, to the assignment of tents. Image: John Ndiku / Ocha

But for Helmut Hess, Somalia expert and earlier head of the Africa Department of Bread for the World, the hunger catastrophe is also a result of a false policy of the West to the failed state of Somalia. A state that is completely on the ground after 20th-year burger war. The West consider Somalia only under the perspective of terrorist, in a political stabilization nobody is interested, criticized Hess.

Only the pirate evaporation and police training are interested. All political efforts of the West have guided to the exact opposite of what you wanted to achieve.

Helmut Hess

If today the fundamentalists of the Al-Shabab wide parts of Somalias control, then this is also a consequence of these completely missed politics. Fundamentalists do not fall from the sky, they are a consequence of the circumstances. The interference of USA and Athiopia has proven to be a fire accelerator.

Since 2006, in Somalia, a transitional government was involved, which was used by the UN with jerking of Athiopia and the USA. She should prevent the "Union of Islamic court courts" In Mogadishu the power takes over. Today, many wish the moderate Muslims of the "Union of Islamic court courts" return. The Christian Athiopia is a lot of nationalist-minded Muslim Somalienn as archenem. At the same time, Athiopia is the most importantly bonded to the US in the international fight against terror in the region.

Following the use of the totally corrupt transit government, which is not entitled from abroad, which does not give any legitimate in the population, the Islamist Al-Shabab militias have become really strong. They could be considered "liberator" Publish from foreign levels. "It was fatal to believe you could pacify Somalia like that", says Paul Bendix, business drivers of Oxfam Germany. "Western politics against Somalia was unwise." Today, the Al-Shabab controls a coarse part of the country, including those provinces, which are particularly threatened by the hunger.

Who wants to help people in Somalia, is probably or ubel not past them. In 2010, they prevents the UN from the World Food Program (WFP) Supplies to the distressive population. Today, they are always hindering auxiliary supplies of the WFP in some regions. For smaller non-governmental aid organizations with local partners, it is easier to help, their use is not as politically charged as the UN Help. The Oxfam organization can supply around one million people in the crisis area, even where the Al-Shabab militias have that.

Helmut Hess is volunteered in the Somali non-governmental organization DBG, which in German "We help all" means and above all in the Mogadishu region operates their projects. "You can negotiate with the AL-SHABAB to help humanitize help in the controlled areas", says the African ackenne and raises the Federal Government to recognize the corrupt transitional government, but categorically reject speech with the Al-Shabab. The Norwegian aid organization Norwegian Church AID also supplies around 30.000 people with auxiliary guys in the province of Gedo, the heartland of the Al-Shabab. They do not hinder this unusable a relief organization to recognize.

New tents in the IFO 3 Camp, Dadaab. Image: John Ndiku / Ocha

In recent years, the Federal Government has supported the training of police officers of the hated transitional government with around one million euros. 50 million euros pay Germany alone in 2011 for the EU mission "Atalanta" for the evidence of pirates. "To other forms of piracy before the Kuste Somalias you do not kill yourself", Moving Hess. European Trawler fish illegally in the rich carriaters from Somalia and consider so the fishermen of their livelihood.

But the development policy of the international donors and the governments of Kenya and Athiopia has contributed to the crisis. They have demonstrated the small farming agriculture and the nomads especially in the marginalized regions in the north of Kenya and in the athiopic Ogades criminal. Ulrich Delius, afrikareferent of the company for threatened Volker, criticizes the agricultural policy of Kenya and Athiopia hard:

In the past decade, hundreds of thousands of hectares of pastureland have been lost because it was misleaded by the resistance and leased as a supposedly unused country for agricultural projects or provided for the settlement of farmers.

Ulrich Delius

The nomads like these shallow the nomads with their herds gladly turn off when there is not enough food on the normally used pastures. In the crisis they lack painfully. In addition, warnings of aid organizations were not observed on a threatening catastrophe. Already in November 2010 there were indications of rising food prices and falling livestock prices – classical indicators for threatening hunger. Then goods have been time to supply the cattle with food. It had then continued to produce milk and meat.

Now the nomads are in front of that, even if they survive the acute emergency situation. Aid organizations therefore demand an emergency fund to help in the future in good time. Not only if you can drive the necessary funds because the pictures of sufficient children wake up our compassion.

The skinny torso of the dead Jesus – without a head and with dark holes instead of arms – or a snapshot with Trump's aggressive gestures: An exhibition explores the theme of art and feelings.

Who doesn't remember the scene when U.S. President Donald Trump appealed to the emotions of his supporters, claiming he could shoot someone in the middle of New York's Fifth Avenue and still not lose any voters? Martha Rosler's highly topical digital print "Point and shoot" captures the moment with Trump's aggressive gestures and facial expressions. The work can be found in the exhibition "Passion Passion. The Art of Great Feelings", with which Munster's Museum of Art and Culture, starting on Friday with 200 exhibits, will for the first time trace an arc to the present day – from the infanticide in Bethlehem to the propaganda of the U.S. president, which is based on instincts instead of arguments.

"Big feelings are in vogue right now, if you just think about the Corona deniers and conspiracy theorists," explained the director of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), Mathias Lob, on Tuesday at the presentation of the show. "An exhibition theme could hardly be more topical."The LWL is the sponsor of the museum, which will be showing the exhibition until July 14. February 2021 shows.

Feelings determine life

Strong feelings are indeed as old as humanity itself. They determine life, influence thought and action. They are absolutely timeless and have also been depicted for centuries with the same stylistic devices. "Art is able to express passions most intensively," explains museum director Hermann Arnhold. "Therefore, we invite everyone to sympathize with what you see here."

In six chapters, the exhibition tells of joy and sorrow, devotion and fear, love and hate, and shows in exemplary fashion how these feelings are expressed in body language, i.e. in gestures and facial expressions. At the beginning, a copy of the Laocoon group is an eye-catcher. The sculpture in the Vatican Museums depicts the death throes of Laocoon and his sons, and has shaped the image of grief and pain in art for centuries. In the second part of the show, works of art from antiquity to the present are linked with source texts and related to art theories, with the reconstruction of an ancient theater mask attracting particular attention. The depiction of the Bethlehemite infanticide from the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens also shows the visitor the full drama of human affects.

The joys and sorrows of love

The heart of the show is the third room on the joys and sorrows of love, which focuses on Eros and physical love, but also on jealousy, horror, despair and sexual violence. An exhibition on the theme of "Passion" would be incomplete, however, if it did not take into account the Passion of Jesus Christ and its echoes in art. The Pieta by the artist Berlinde de Bruyckere, created in 2007/2008, has a particularly blatant, even shocking and provocative effect, showing the naked, gaunt figure of the dead Jesus without a head and with dark holes instead of arms, completely lonely and abandoned on a soft feather pillow. Hardly less drastic and impressive is the "Christ at the Scourging Pillar," carved from linden wood and created in the Alpine region in 1697.

Room five explores the meaning of feelings in a political context, such as Willy Brandt's genuflection in the Warsaw Ghetto or the brotherly kiss of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker. The last room brings together self-portraits of artists – mirrors of their own spiritual lives. At the same time, visitors can also examine their own feelings: The so-called "Passion Curve" asks whether love, hate, serenity or anger are predominant.

The facial recognition station at the end is thought-provoking: it uses a screen to analyze visitors' facial expressions and translates them into feelings. According to the exhibition's curator, Petra Marx, "Some people might find it quite frightening what the device brings to light."

Gerd Felder

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