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This year´s meeting of the Association of Friends of the Protestant Evangelical Faculty (EPF) of the Charles University (hereinafter only Association) took place from 7th to 9th November.

It was focused on the question:“Whose holy war? Christians and the fight for peace.“ It was actually only a small group of participants who met to reflect and discuss rather a controversial theme concerning Christian attitudes to war.


It was a Dutch documentary film “God is my co-pilot“ of 2000 (author Karin Jungers) about the mission of US-pilots in the war against Serbia, which introduced the participants into that complex theme. Saturday morning session was filled with the presentations dealing with positions that had been taken up on the war in different protestant traditions. After the introductory reflexion by the theologian, historian and President of the Association, Dr. Daniel Neval, it was Dr. Volker Stümke, associate professor of the evangelical social ethics at the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr in Hamburg, who took the floor. His presentation was centered on Martin Luther´s thoughts on war. He was followed by Dr. Jindřich Halama, associate professor of ethics at the EPF. He outlined the positions of Czech brethren to war, from the total refusal of violence up to the conditional approval of a defensive war. Zwingli´s defence of an armed fight used for the promotion of the lasting peace, on the example of the fight of Kapell of the year 1529, was the theme of the paper by Dr. Olivier Banguert, who, however, could not take part in the meeting in person, due to his obligations for the Red Cross in Africa.The discussion at the end of the morning session turned about the relevance of reformers positions in present context.


While the morning program was located in the ETF, in the afternoon the participants were guests of Prague´s Military Historical Museum, where in two workshops they discussed the present role of chaplains in the Czech, the Swiss and the German armies.The core of the workshops were the reports by Col. Dr. Hans Rudolf Furer, associate professor of military history at the Zurych University, and Lieut.Col.Tomáš Holub, the chief chaplain in the Army of the Czech Republic. In the end, Col. Aleš Knížek, the Museum´s director showed the participants round the permanent exhibition, and particularly a special exhibition devoted to the assassination of the SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich in June 1942.


A soirée was held at the ETF as the last event of Saturday, though in the course of the evening Dr. Martin Albrecht lectured for those who were interested. The theme of his lecture, which was listened to by really a small circle of participants, was the Role of the SixthTank Regiment of Wehrmacht at the German Entry in Prague on 15th March 1939. On Sunday morning the participants took part in the worship of the German Evangelical Congregation and at noon, traditionally, they had a good-bye lunch At the Franciscans.

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