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(Bonn, 26.03.2015) Since the terror attacks in Paris at the beginning of the year, themes such as integration and Identity, the relation of foundational democratic values with religions, as well as religious fundamentalism and violence, […]
Source: WEA News The Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom, Thomas Schirrmacher, gave a guest lecture entitled “Religious Freedom as a Threatened Human Right in Worldwide Perspective: The Major Factors in the Growing Assault […]
Translated from Die Welt, January 19, 2015 Every religion can become the origin of injustice, claims Thomas Schirrmacher. In this interview, the human rights activist speaks about persecuted Christians and fairness for IS terrorists. By Till-R. Stoldt Every year Christian […]
(Bonner Querschnitte, 21.03.2015) Der Vorsitzende der Theologischen Kommission der Weltweiten Evangelischen Allianz, Thomas Schirrmacher, hat seinen Kollegen, den Bochumer baptistischen Konfessionskundler Erich Geldbach, in einem offenen Brief aufgefordert, Begriffe wie ‚Erzfeinde‘ aus der Sprache der […]
In Thailand police stations are overrun by Muslim extremists; in Mali the government was temporarily toppled by them; Yemen is, as a result of Islamists, ungovernable. In Syria,Japanese hostages are killed by Islamists, and a […]
EDITORIAL Education remains a key issue for Christians today, just as in the past.
Bernd Schirrmacher, Honorary Chairman of the August-Hermann-Francke School in Giessen, Germany, one of the largest Evangelical schools in Europe, died peacefully in a retirement home in Lahnau near Giessen shortly before his 94th birthday and just […]