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Showing solidarity even through a pandemic

Would people cut back on donations during the pandemic? This was the anxious question that confronted the New Apostolic relief agency NAK-karitativ in 2020, the year when COVID-19 first reared its head. The answer is to be found in the organisation’s most recent annual report, which is now available.

September 6, 2022

Africa Charity work

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• Chief Apostle
• Christmas
• Congregation
• Doctrine 
• Youth

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Proven and up-to-date

During the pandemic, they have proven themselves to be a reliable offer: the central online services in the various time zones and countries. All changes have been taken into account in our weekly overview.

September 2, 2022

Chief Apostle

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• Congregation
• Divine service
• Music

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Information evening on the ordination of women

The New Apostolic Church is inviting its members from all around the world to a virtual congregational evening with the Chief Apostle. So reports the home page of nak.org, which also mentions what the subject matter involves. The background to the developments in question is explained by nac.today.

September 2, 2022

Chief Apostle

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• Congregation
• District Apostle
• Doctrine 
• Europe
• Investiture
• Ministry
• Organisation
• Pentecost
• Sacraments
• Society

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Good recipes for cliff-hangers

Christians are not only to talk—they are also supposed to act in Christian fashion. But how is this supposed to happen, particularly in a time when Christianity has been pushed to the margins in many places of the world? Here are some excerpts from the Sunday divine services of the New Apostolic Church in the month of September.

September 1, 2022

Chief Apostle

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• Congregation
• Denominations
• Divine service
• Doctrine 
• Sacraments
• Society

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Calling all heirs: you can inherit everything!

Childhood in God is not a status symbol, but a mission for us to become like little children and to learn to suffer with Christ. How can we do this? Here are the explanations from a divine service by the Chief Apostle.

August 30, 2022

Chief Apostle

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• Divine service

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When children make a scene

Children in Ghana perform some theatre, a District Apostle celebrates six divine services in a single week in Argentina, and the members in the Philippines take delight at the visit of their District Apostle. Let’s take a trip around the world with the online magazine of the New Apostolic Church.

August 26, 2022

Africa America

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• Asia
• Children
• Congregation
• Denominations
• District Apostle
• Divine service
• Doctrine 
• Europe
• Holy Sealing
• Music
• Palm Sunday
• Sacraments

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Proven and up-to-date

During the pandemic, they have proven themselves to be a reliable offer: the central online services in the various time zones and countries. All changes have been taken into account in our weekly overview.

August 26, 2022

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• Congregation
• Divine service
• Music

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Sanctified through and through

Anyone who longs for the peace of God must first be sanctified—and must even contribute to the sanctification of others. Just how this works was explained by Chief Apostle Jean-Luc Schneider in a divine service he recently conducted in Estonia.

August 24, 2022

Chief Apostle

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• Divine service
• Doctrine 
• Holy Communion
• Sacraments

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Fellowship in name, doctrine, and structure

The "father of unity" was followed by the organiser and protector of New Apostolic unity, namely Chief Apostle Hermann Niehaus. On 23 August 2022, we mark the 90th anniversary of his passing. This is the story of how the erstwhile farmer cultivated the church field.

August 23, 2022

Africa

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• Apostolate
• Australia / Pacific
• Chief Apostle
• Congregation
• Doctrine 
• Grieving
• Holy Communion
• Holy Sealing
• Investiture
• Ministry
• Pastoral care
• Sacraments

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Spotlight 12/2022: Let’s not shut ourselves off

During a pandemic it is important to isolate oneself in order to avert the risk of infection. In our congregational life, however, things look very different: there isolation is a danger, District Apostle Tshitshi Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo warns.

August 22, 2022

Annual motto

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• Congregation
• District Apostle
• Grieving
• Pastoral care
• Society

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Upcoming divine services

Fluctuating case numbers and adapting to changing Covid-19 measures are challenging people everywhere. But there is a comforting constant in all of this—our online and dial-in services.

August 19, 2022

Chief Apostle

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• Congregation
• District Apostle
• Divine service
• Music

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A church’s struggle to survive dark times

The New Apostolic Church in the Nazi era: recent research refutes previous misconceptions and standard platitudes. So say proven experts who have critically monitored the Church for quite some time. Four reactions to two current publications follow.

August 18, 2022

Africa

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• America
• Australia / Pacific
• Chief Apostle
• Doctrine 
• History 
• Ministry

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A divine service to still our hunger and thirst

God can satisfy those who hunger and thirst for His justice. But He does not always do this in the way one would wish. The righteousness of God and how to obtain it was the subject of a recent divine service by the Chief Apostle.

August 17, 2022

Apostolate

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• Chief Apostle
• Congregation
• District Apostle
• Divine service
• Doctrine 

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The sacraments (61): Three times a year for all

It looks no different than usual: Apostles dispense the sacraments—this time to two designated ministers—and the congregation stands and prays along silently. And yet, this is a highly solemn moment that has touched the faithful for generations.

August 16, 2022

Baptism 

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• Chief Apostle
• Concept of salvation for the departed
• Congregation
• Denominations
• District Apostle
• Divine service
• Doctrine 
• Holy Communion
• Holy Sealing
• Music
• Sacraments

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Bringing faith to the campus

Practising faith together with others, spreading the gospel, and helping to shape the Church of tomorrow—that is what New Apostolic students in South Africa want. And that is the reason they have organised themselves into student societies.

August 15, 2022

Africa

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• Congregation
• District Apostle
• Pastoral care
• Youth

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Where two or three gather…

…I am there with them. This is what Jesus promises all those who take part in a divine service—whether online or in person in their congregation.

August 12, 2022

Chief Apostle

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• Congregation
• Divine service
• Easter
• Music

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Our mission and authority are modelled on Jesus

Leave the miracles to others. Today’s ministers have the mission to teach and preach the gospel to everyone and in all circumstances. At a recent divine service for ministers, Chief Apostle Jean-Luc Schneider reminded them of their tasks.

August 10, 2022

Chief Apostle Divine service

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• Doctrine 
• Investiture
• Ministry
• Pastoral care
• Society

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Love others as they are, not as you would have them be!

“Indigenous” is a term that means “native”. The UN also speaks of autochthonous peoples, a reference to the descendants of the original population. The United Nations’ International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed on August 9th each year to raise awareness.

August 9, 2022

Apostolate

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• Chief Apostle
• Doctrine 
• Europe
• History 
• Ministry

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Questions about the future? Ask God!

No one can see into the future, except God. But we can all plan for tomorrow. This is something that New Apostolic congregations do by minimising their impact on the environment, by being there for the upcoming generations, or seeing to sustainable development.

August 5, 2022

Africa

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• Annual motto
• Buildings
• Charity work
• Congregation
• District Apostle
• Divine service
• Doctrine 
• Event
• Ministry
• Music
• Pastoral care
• Youth

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Divine services on six continents

There are members everywhere who are doing what they can these days to ensure that divine services are transmitted via Internet and telephone. There is only one continent from which the New Apostolic Church does not transmit online services.

August 5, 2022

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• Congregation
• Divine service
• Music
• Social commitment

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USA initiates a generational shift

The New Apostolic Church in the USA is preparing to write a new chapter in its history. In little over a year, District Apostle Leonard R. Kolb (born 1956) will retire. His designated successor is to be assigned as a District Apostle Helper this coming Sunday.

August 4, 2022

America

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• Apostolate
• Chief Apostle
• Congregation
• District Apostle
• Divine service
• Doctrine 
• History 
• Ministry

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Moving forward with God’s help!

“This was the first time that I could travel into this part of the province of North Kivu,” Chief Apostle Jean-Luc Schneider wrote. And that is saying something, because for many years he travelled throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo as District Apostle.

August 3, 2022

Ascension Day Chief Apostle

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• District Apostle
• Divine service
• Doctrine 

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The sacraments (60): An order for the beyond

Things got off to a turbulent start. But step by step the New Apostolic Church has put order into its sacraments for the departed. Once the practical part had been brought into line, the theory followed suit. Here is the history in fast-forward mode.

August 2, 2022

Chief Apostle

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• Christmas
• Concept of salvation for the departed
• Congregation
• Divine service
• Doctrine 
• History 
• Holy Communion
• Ministry
• Pentecost
• Sacraments

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Praying together

Hearing the word of God and the absolution, receiving blessing, and worshipping God together… These are some the key elements of divine service. And all this is possible virtually, even during the pandemic.

July 29, 2022

Chief Apostle

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• Congregation
• Divine service
• Easter
• Music

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Pleading our own cause: we want you to share!

The web, apps, and print products are all channels through which nac.today conveys information and news. Some people, however, still want to share it in their own way. Is that okay? There is a clear answer to this question—along with three little points to observe.

July 28, 2022

Chief Apostle

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• Congregation

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United in Christ and with each other

It was “a Sunday like no other” in the Stade Martyr in Kinshasa, where the national football team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo usually plays. That is at least how the Chief Apostle felt about it. More than 35,000 young people had come to see and hear him.

July 27, 2022

Chief Apostle

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• Congregation
• Divine service
• Doctrine 
• Holy Communion
• Sacraments
• Society
• Youth

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A leader with an open heart and mind

His faith, his foresight, and his humility made him a formative figure in New Apostolic history: Chief Apostle Hans Urwyler would have turned 100 on 20 February. Today and tomorrow, we will pay tribute to this man as a way of saying thank you.

February 19, 2025

Profile Chief Apostle

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• History 
• Anniversary

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Faith. Fellowship. Future.

A feast that will stay: Pentecost 2025 has left deep impressions and provided an outlook for the future. Here is an overview of everything there is to know.

June 11, 2025

Pentecost Investiture

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• Chief Apostle
• District Apostle
• Divine service
• Organisation
• Local news
• Buildings
• Music

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“Step by step, courageously forward” 

Twenty years ago today, Chief Apostle Richard Fehr handed over the ministry to his successor. In a video interview later, Chief Apostle Wilhelm Leber revealed how this came about.

May 15, 2025

Investiture Chief Apostle

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• Anniversary
• History

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