Stories tagged with: berlin wall

• Fall of Berlin Wall: Historical reflection

  by Mike Creswell and Joanna Pinneo, posted Friday, November 08, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  IMB Photo by Joanna Pinneo

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- When the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, a barrier 103 miles long and 13 feet high enclosed West Berlin. It cut off some people from jobs, churches, families and friends. Several Baptist churches in West Berlin lost hundreds of members, some half their membership. In East Germany the wall was considered a necessary way to staunch the loss of its people who went West and didn't return. At least 77 people died trying to cross the barrier.

  The middle of West Berlin became one big pedestrian mall in the days after the Berlin Wall opened last November. Hundreds of thousands of East Berliners visited former homes, friends and family, [and] looked and shopped in stores they had only heard about before. At least for a time, there were no barriers of age, background or ideology. Everyone, from old West Berliners to young East Berliners, celebrated just being together. Read More

• WORLDVIEW: The rise & fall of walls

  by Erich Bridges, posted Thursday, November 13, 2014 (9 years ago)

  Despite the Berlin Wall and numerous other physical & spiritual walls throughout history, believers persist in faith because, as missions columnist Erich Bridges notes, "God will not leave Himself without a witness." Read More

• East Germans still burdened by the wall

  by Beth Vaughan, posted Friday, November 07, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by J.W. Jenkins

  BERLIN, Germany (BP) -- On Nov. 9, 1989, East German border guards stood by dumbfounded as streams of East Berliners flooded through Brandenburg Gate into the ecstatic freedom of West Berlin. Read More

• Berlin Wall lost its grip 25 yrs. ago

  by Nicole Lee, posted Friday, November 07, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo from IMB archives.

  BERLIN, Germany (BP) -- A frenzied crowd danced on the wall separating East Berlin and West Berlin 25 years ago, celebrating a long-sought victory for freedom. Read More