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The Rhenish Church in the Rhineland is the second Protestant regional church to put homosexual partners on an equal footing with married couples. The 20 regional Protestant churches handle the ie differently. An overview.

* Evangelical Church of Anhalt: Blessings are possible in a church service – the decision is made by the respective congregational church council and the parish office. In case of disagreement, the responsible district pastor is involved.

* Evangelical Regional Church in Baden: Blessings are only possible outside of church services in the context of pastoral action.

* Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria: Blessings are possible in devotions or church services in a pastoral context. Local priest decides with couple on implementation.

* Protestant Church Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz: Homosexual couples should soon receive the same blessing as married couples. The blessing prayers for registered civil partnerships, which have been possible since 2002, are expected to be put on an equal footing with the traditional wedding services for men and women in the spring.

* Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig: Blessings are possible in the context of a prayer or a church service. Whether such a blessing takes place is at the discretion of the pastor in consultation with the respective church council. However, this blessing may not be confused with a marriage service.

* Bremen Protestant Church: Each congregation decides for itself on blessings. They are entered into a separate church book as an official act.

* Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover: blessings are possible in church services. However, they differ in part from marriage ceremonies between a woman and a man. Pastors can refuse to perform the blessing themselves for reasons of conscience and hand it over to another congregation.

* Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau: Blessings are possible and equal to church marriage. They are entered in the church records like marriage.

* Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck: Blessings are possible in a church service.

* Lippische Landeskirche: Blessings are possible in a church service and are documented in a separate church register.

* Evangelical Church in Central Germany: Blessings are possible in a church service.

* Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Germany (North Church): Blessings of registered civil partnerships are possible in principle in pastoral conversation. For blessings in public services, the consent of the parish council and provost must be obtained. A uniform regulation is currently being worked on.

* Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg: blessings are possible in the form of a devotion or a church service.

*Evangelical Church of the Palatinate: Blessings are possible in the form of a devotion or a church service.

* Protestant Reformed Church: the congregations decide on blessings in church services.

* Evangelical Church in the Rhineland: Registered partners will be married in the same way as married couples. The official act is entered in the church records. An earlier blessing of the same-sex couple can be subsequently recognized as a marriage ceremony and an official certificate ied for it.

* Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony: The regional church rejects a blessing of same-sex couples. A change is not planned at present.

* Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schaumburg-Lippe: Blessings are possible in a personal setting if a pastor is willing, but not as a public service with bell ringing. The state synod has initiated a consultation process on how the state church will deal with this ie in the future.

* Protestant Church of Westphalia: Blessings are possible in church services. The blessing is recorded in a separate register of the congregation. "Marriage" the service may not be called however, it is also no official official act.

* Evangelical regional church in Wuerttemberg: Blessing services for homosexual couples are not possible.

The Round Table of the Federal Government continues its deliberations tomorrow. Abuse commissioner Bergmann will present interim report of her work. Meanwhile, the government has announced plans to invest more in root cause research to prevent sexual abuse.

Legal ies are seen as the most sensitive points in the deliberations. Here's how controversial it is whether there should be a reporting requirement. Questions of compensation and the future statute of limitations are also open.

32 million euros for science
Ministers Kristina Schroder (Family, CDU), Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (Justice, FDP) and Annette Schavan (Education, CDU) lead the deliberations. The next plenary meeting is scheduled for 1. December envisaged.

Meanwhile, Schavan announced the allocation of 32 million euros for the scientific reappraisal of abuse and violence in childhood and adolescence. Among other things, the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, which in 1992 produced the only representative survey to date, is to develop a new survey with significantly more participants.

The topic of compensation
The agenda of the Round Table also includes a report by representatives of the Tauwetter and Wildwasser counseling centers on political demands formulated by victims at a nationwide congress in Berlin over the weekend. In addition, the three working groups of the Round Table will provide information on the status of their deliberations. The Catholic Church is also expected to provide more detailed information about its plans on the subject of compensation.

In view of the cases of abuse that came to light at the end of January, first in church institutions and then in other institutions as well, the government had set up a round table and appointed an independent commissioner. The Round Table appointed three working groups, which have since dealt with legal ies, prevention and qualification of professionals and volunteers, as well as scientific findings on the subject of abuse. The experts on legal ies have already met three times. The other two working groups met twice (prevention) and once, respectively.

Abuse, neglect and violence" research network
Schavan announced to journalists on Wednesday that her ministry is making 32 million euros available for research projects. Scientists should develop important foundations "to prevent child abuse and effectively help victims," she said. 20 million euros to be invested in an interdisciplinary research network on abuse, neglect and violence. Further funds flow into research in educational science.

Leading scientists, who are also involved in the roundtable, pointed to a close connection between early childhood experiences of violence or neglect and later cases of abuse when presenting the concepts. Neglected children often put themselves at risk because they sought closeness and trust elsewhere. According to Ulm physician Jorg M, children in institutions are a high-risk group. Fegert. With regard to trauma research, he referred to U.S. findings in dealing with the 11. September and Hurricane Katrina.

Brain research examines abuse images in the network
The physician and psychotherapist Klaus M. Beier, who has been leading a nationally respected abuse prevention concept at Berlin's Charite for years, lamented the presence of "abuse images" on the Internet. He rejects the term "child pornography" as too trivializing.

In the meantime, there are findings in brain research that viewing such images ensures that they are anchored in the brain, as if one had committed the acts oneself. Beier, referring to many assaults on the disabled, stressed the lack of a sex education program for this group of people.

Ministers in conversation with victims
Schroder, Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Schavan want to meet victims of sexual violence themselves in November for talks. In addition, Schroder and Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger plan to visit the memorial "Geschlossener Jugendwerkhof Torgau" soon to learn about cases of abuse in the youth work yards of the GDR.

The Catholic Church had presented new guidelines on sexual abuse in early September. Since then, in their leading bodies, the question of financial compensation was at stake.

Like few others in his field, double bassist Charlie Haden has left his mark on jazz – and broken new ground. In the 60s he was one of the punks of the jazz scene. For his political commitment he was even imprisoned for one day. The bassist, composer, teacher and political activist turns 75 today.

He has played with jazz greats like John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, with pop and rock musicians like Sting, ex-Beatle Ringo Starr or Yoko Ono. The U.S. jazz bassist Charlie Haden sees the bass player's playing not only as an accompaniment, but as his own voice.

Time magazine called Haden one of the "most restless, talented and intrepid players in all of jazz". British rock singer Ian Dury, who died in 2000, once confessed that the catchy riff of his hit "Sex and Drugs and Rock "n"
Roll" was inspired by a solo by Haden. For his life's work, the bassist received the "NEA Jazz Masters Award" – the highest official honor for jazz musicians in the USA – in New York at the beginning of the year.

Haden's recordings with the Ornette Coleman Quartet, such as 1959's "The Shape of Jazz to Come," are still considered groundbreaking avant-garde albums. Together with alto saxophonist Coleman, Haden virtually single-handedly invented free jazz, wrote the news magazine "Der Spiegel".

Rebellious, feverish, dissonant tone sequences
In the conservative, anti-communist postwar era of the 1950s and 1960s, Haden was one of the punks of the jazz scene: against the orderly harmonic big band and orchestral sound, they fired off rebellious, feverish, dissonant sequences of notes.

Music and politics belong together for Haden anyway. In 1969, at the height of the social and political upheaval in the U.S., he founded the "Liberation Music Orchestra," which still exists today and whose repertoire consists largely of "liberation songs" from various countries and eras.

At a concert in Portugal in 1971, Haden dedicated the composition "Song for Che" expressly to the opponents of the dictatorial regime of the time. Thereupon he was arrested, interrogated by the secret police and put in jail for a day.

In the meantime, there is hardly a genre in which Haden has not made a guest appearance. In recent years, he recorded "Rambling Boy" with high-profile country musicians. Together with the pianist Hank Jones, who died in 2010, he dedicated himself to gospel music ("Come Sunday"). And on "Sophisticated Ladies" he shone together with pop and jazz singers such as Melody Gardot, Norah Jones and Diana Krall.

Born in Shenandoah, Iowa, in 1937, Haden grew up in an extremely musical family. At the age of 22 months, he made his first squawking appearance on his parents' country radio show. As a child, he sang and played several instruments until he settled on double bass at age 19.

To learn to play the bass properly, he moved to Los Angeles in 1956, where the country boy experienced a meteoric rise. Similar to New York, life pulsated there in countless jazz clubs. "Midnight sessions were commonplace, and you could play until your fingers hurt," Haden recalls. "Those were definitely exciting times."

Children make music m
He dedicated numerous recordings to the city of Los Angeles with the "Quartet West", which he founded together with his second wife Ruth Cameron in 1986. A masterpiece here is "Always Say Goodbye". With it, he resurrected the Los Angeles of the crime novelist he admired, Raymond Chandler (1888-1959). In the atmospheric music, he has incorporated soundtracks from Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s as well as original recordings by Chet Baker, Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington and Jo Stafford.

To this day, Haden has the reputation of being a very disciplined, experimental musician. He keeps his private and family life under wraps, but for some productions, such as "Rambling Boy," he enlists his now-grown children as co-musicians.

His music has become softer, more melancholy and romantic within half a century. Music teaches you a lot about life, he said earlier this year in his acceptance speech for the "NEA Jazz Masters Award". In the middle of an improvisation there is no tomorrow and no yesterday. "There is only the moment in which you are right now."

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