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An internationally well known European theologian and church leader has called upon the churches in Asia, to send more missionaries to Europe.
Schirrmacher speaks at book launch to the Ecumenical Patriarch and other heads of churches in Turkey
On the death of my dear teacher, Georg Huntemann, – especially on ethics and Judaism – my obituary appeared in 2014 in the journal of the Martin Bucer Seminars Glauben und Denken heute in issue 1/2014 together with a classical essay by Huntemann “Eigentum als Schöpfungsordnung Gottes”.
On the occasion of a meeting of the heads of all major churches and confessions of Turkey at the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul, the Associate Secretary General Bishop Thomas Schirrmacher introduced Dr Nikolay (Nik) Nedelchev personally to Bartholomew I, who as Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch is the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.
The German newsletter on persecution of Christians of the International Society for Human Rights has endorsed your German yearbooks on religious freedom and on the persecution and discrimination of Christians. It also quotes in length from my advocacy for the unguilty improsined former major of Jakarta, „Ahok“.
The Co-Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom, Prof. Dr. Christof Sauer, welcomes in an extensive analysis that the “Ecumenical report on the religious freedom of Christians around the world” has renewed attention for the discrimination and persecution of Christians.
Starting from Baltrum, we went on a round flight over six East Frisian islands. Thus we flew over (from west to east) (Memmert), Juist, Norderney, Baltrum, Langeoog, Spiekeroog and Wangerooge (Minsener Oog), with stopover in Harle (Harlesiel), in fairest weather on the sea-side as well as on the waddon-, respectively land-side, perfect visibility and low tide.