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RADIO INTERVIEW

Maren Freudenberg talks to WDR5 about a major evangelical event in Essen, Germany

On Saturday, 7 October, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Organization, a conservative Christian organization from the USA, hosted a large-scale Evangelical event in Essen under the title “Festival of Hope”.

The event around Franklin Graham, son of the famous preacher Billy Graham, who had hosted a similar event in Essen 30 years ago, is classified in an interview with WDR by sociologist of religion Maren Freudenberg.

The relevant contribution from the radio program “Diesseits von Eden” can be heard from minute 27:20: https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr5/wdr5-diesseits-von-eden-ganze-sendung/index.html