Germany's mammoth Kirchentag festival is no stranger to controversy. This year's event in Leipzig, the first all-German Kirchentag held in Eastern Germany since 1954, was no exception.
Vaatz also refused to attend the closing service on June 22, citing the planned sermon of Pastor Heino Falcke, a prominent, longtime critic of the communist state.
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