Party of Bible-abiding Christians
The Party of Bible-abiding Christians was a conservative evangelical minor right-wing political party in Germany. It was founded in 1989 during a convent of the Federation of Pentecostal Churches to serve as political arm of the christian right in germany. It was against same-sex marriage and legality of abortion. It supported a reference to God in the European Constitution and it strongly supported Israel. In March 2015, the PBC merged with the Party for Labour, Environment and Family into the Alliance C – Christians for Germany.
Most members were from Württemberg or Saxony and were members or sympathizers of what Germans call "Freikirche", i.e., protestants from pentecostal and charismatic sects, which are not affiliated with the large lutheran Evangelical Church in Germany.
The party's success, however, was very limited on the federal and state levels of government because it never reached the "5% hurdle" of votes cast necessary to get into the parliaments in Germany's system of proportional representation. In the last federal election the PBC participated, the party achieved 0.0 percent of votes.p
By contrast, the conservative Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union of Bavaria are powerful political forces in Germany. They differ greatly from the former PBC though in accepting secularization and being traditionally close to the Evangelical Church in Germany and the Roman Catholic Church.
The party was a member of the European Christian Political Movement.
