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A commentary by the Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom, Thomas Schirrmacher, on the most recent pronouncement by the Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama has decided that he does not wish to have […]
PRO: Obama: Religionsfreiheit dient nationaler Sicherheit [Meldung aus PRO:] Das 62. jährliche „National Prayer Breakfast“ hat am Donnerstag in Washington die extreme Armut weltweit thematisiert. Zudem mahnte der US-amerikanische Präsident Barack Obama vor 3.000 Teilnehmern […]
296.000 Sinti und Roma (‚Zigeuner‘) wurden im Dritten Reichen umgebracht, die meisten in KZs. Ich habe in meinem Blog „Wider die Sippenhaft für alle Roma und Sinti“ (1.9.2010) Fotos der Roma & Sinti-Gedenkstätte im KZ […]
Focus magazine reports on the civil war in Iraq – as many other forms of media have: “Everywhere in the city there are posters hanging which order families to give up their unmarried daughters – for […]
Wilf Gasser, associate secretary general of World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) and Thomas Schirrmacher, chair of the Theological Commission of WEA, congratulated Olav Tveit on his reelection for a second term as general secretary of the […]
Der Papst hat drei evangelikale und drei charismatische Leiter zu einem privaten Gespräch eingeladen, darunter den Vorsitzenden der Theologischen Kommission der Weltweiten Evangelischen Allianz (WEA), Thomas Schirrmacher. Für pro schildert er seine Eindrücke. Über die […]
In 2011, in two long blog entries, I described my research and opinion on the religious martyr worship of soldiers killed in World War II in Edinburgh and Tokyo. During my travels, I encounter similar phenomena time and again, so also most recently during my inaugural visit to the Canadian Government’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom.