... churches left in East Germany. The state tried its best to annihilate all of them. The state did let a few churches remain visibly open to PR the rest of the world that there was freedom of religion. The current chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, is the daughter of a pastor of one of those churches. But most churches became museums, libraries, and office building. The magnificent Gothic church on the campus of Leipzig University was an embarrassment to the regime, so it was blown up and replaced with ...
... discrimination, but every year it declines bit by bit. Good. The same is certainly true in the secular world. The twenty-first century has seen the Harvard-educated Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf elected as President of Liberia, Africa’s first female president. Angela Merkel has been one of the longest serving chancellors of Germany. Michelle Bachelet was elected president of Chile, the first woman to lead a major Latin American country. Since the 1990s, more than thirty women have become heads of government. In ...
