During Christmas 2016, the Sathya Sai Centre of Karlsruhe included Christmas songs in its regular devotional programme, and on 22nd December, more than 10 people decorated the altar at the centre with nativity scenes. Members engaged in a study circle discussing the true meaning of…
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The Whitsun Meeting, coinciding with the Christian festival of Pentecost, started at a regional level more than 20 years ago and has now grown to a national annual festival. Held at Stemwede in northern Germany, this springtime event attracts Sathya Sai followers from all over…
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During 6th to 8th May 2016, about 80 SSIO members and office bearers from southern Germany gathered at Wartaweil, near Lake Ammersee, for a regional retreat on the theme, “Human Values – Our Inner Treasure.” The group divided into three focus groups to concentrate on…
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The Institutes of Sathya Sai Education (ISSEs) of South Europe and North Europe jointly hosted a second European Managers Conference on the weekend of 9th–10th April 2016. Despite ongoing strikes in Greece and Italy, 35 business managers and interested parties from Greece, Italy, Norway, Holland,…
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Traditionally, the SSIO of Germany organises a summer camp for children every year. In the first week of August 2015, 45 Sathya Sai devotees – children, female youth and teachers – came together at the youth hostel of Linsengericht, a beautiful village in the Spessart…
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About 50 Sathya Sai members attended a third Sathya Sai Cultural Summer Festival in Bad Neuenahr in July 2015. The event connected spirituality with local culture and traditions, with participants enjoying several presentations on the practice of love in business, religion, and cultural heritage.
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In Northern Germany, 108 Sathya Sai devotees attended a traditional Whitsun Meeting at Stemwede, from 22nd to 25th May 2015. The camping event focused on the topic, Sound of the Golden Age, involving music.
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A new project, Values-Relay, was started to organise various human values related activities along a south-to-north route in Germany between May and September 2015. The project launched on 9th May 2015 during the Pre-World Conference in Wartaweil,
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Around 140 Sathya Sai devotees from Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom attended a Pre-World Conference in Wartaweil, Germany, from 8th to 10th May 2015.
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In honour of Avatar Declaration Day, on 20th October 2014, 161 volunteers from 12 Sathya Sai Centres and Groups in Germany served more than 200 refugee children, who had been forced to abandon their country and live in asylums.
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