Story number 4 for 25 Oct 2001

(Germany)–Meanwhile, Christians in Germany are dismayed at their country’s election of socialists during local elections in Berlin. According to Idea News, the Party of Democratic Socialism gained more than 22-percent of the vote. East German evangelist Reverend Hans Joachim Marten calls the election results a ‘catastrophe’. He says it shows the poor spiritual situation of the three-point-five million Berliners. It’s unclear what the election results could mean for evangelism there.