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The Theological Concerns Department of the World Evangelical Alliance for years distributes a CD with many books on theology, world religions, as well as several journals. It is updated regularly.
After “Manchester,” there was complete silence in the British media and within British politics about the fact that the perpetrators and those who took responsibility for the act of terror invoked Islam. It is a worthy aim to have the desire to prevent innocent individuals, in this case Muslims around the world, from being thrown into a maelstrom where they are prejudged. However, this is certainly not how the problems will be solved.
My teacher Heinrich Leonard Cox (1935–2016) died on September 6, 2016, a few weeks after his 81st birthday. Since far too few obituaries have appeared, I would like to remember him once again.
After our visit of the President of Lebanon we met Patriarch Gregory III Laham in front of the President’s palace, as the Pope had just excepted his resignation at age 84 and he officially said farewell to the President. So we just drove to his second official residence (the first one is in Damascus).
The Bonn Publishing house Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft (Culture and Science Publ.) has published a new volume on the background of the theocracy in Iran.