The legal experts of the Institut für Weltanschauungsrecht welcome today's judgement of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which declared the dismissal of a chief physician for "lack of loyalty" to the Catholic Church to be prohibited discrimination according to Art. 21 of the Charter of the European Union. Ingrid Matthäus-Maier, former deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group, ifw advisory board member and spokeswoman for the "Campaign against Religious Discrimination in the Workplace", described the verdict as "the beginning of the end of church labour law in Germany".

Technological progress provides people with ever more effective tools - but according to which ethical criteria should they be used? The latest brochure produced by the Giordano Bruno Stiftung titled "How should IT work?" examines this question and how universal human rights can be defended in the age of digitization.

99 years ago today, on 14 August 1919, the Weimar Constitution was enacted. On the 99th birthday of the democratic constitutional state also begins the "100th year of the constitutional breach", because to this day the demands of the Weimar Constitution, i.e. equal treatment of all religions and worldviews as well as the redemption of state payments to the churches, have not been implemented.

"The individual's dignity is determined by the fact that the individual determines their dignity." The Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) recently published an essay by Michael Schmidt-Salomon on the topic of "Bioethics in Evolutionary Humanism" on its website. The essay outlines the basics of evolutionary humanism in compact form and presents the gbs positions in the field of "bioethics". Other bpb articles in the category "Religion, Philosophy and Bioethics" deal with the topics "Bioethics in Islam", "Bioethics and Judaism", or "Bioethics and the Protestant Church".