The Protestant Church of Germany (EKD) on Saturday issued a call for people to stand against hatred and marginalization on Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is marked internationally on January 27. “Contemptuous ideologies, indeed hatred and misanthropy, are not just historical phenomena,” warned the president of the synod of the EKD, Anna-Nicole Heinrich. “As a church, we are obliged to be a clearly audible voice against all forms of group-based misanthropy and marginalization. Extremist, racist and ethno-nationalist attitudes are a slap in the face of God.” Heinrich and the current chair of t…