Interview at the Close of the Vatican Synod with the Austrian Evangelical Alliance (2015)
INTERVIEW This interview was published by the Austrian Evangelical Alliance after the Bishops Synod on Marriage and Family in the Vatican in 2015.
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On the road in Cuba
Pictures of my Cuba journey
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My Welcoming Address for Saïda Keller-Messahli in Connection with the 2016 Human Rights Award from the Swiss Section of the ISHR
Der Menschenrechtspreis 2016 der Schweizer Sektion der IGFM geht an eine mutige und zugunsten der Menschenrechte bewusst polarisierende Frau, die gewissermaßen in einem der wichtigsten Wespennester der Gegenwart ‚herumstochert‘.
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Review of the seventh edition of my book „Koran und Bibel“
A german review of the book „Koran und Bibel“ by Anna Müller.
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Word of greetings at the tenth anniversary of the study center Chemnitz (Saxony) of the Martin Bucer Seminary
Attached the greetings by myself (with nice words about Frank Heinrich) and by Frank Heinrich, member of the German federal parliament (with nice words about me) – we did not know what the other would say!
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Religious Dialogue in Azerbaijan
Christine and Thomas Schirrmacher have paid a visit to the ministry of religious affairs in Azerbaijan as well as to government organizations having to do with the areas of religion and culture. Additionally, they visited the leaders of the different Muslim confessions as well as leaders of the Jewish community and the leadership of the officially recognized denominations within the country (Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran), all in an effort to construct a picture of the situation relating to religious freedom and the status of the dialogue conducted between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Besides that, they also met with the chairpersons of the most important human rights organizations in the country.
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World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) offers to send peace representatives to all governments and religious bodies in conflict with Evangelicals
At the end of his speech on principles of peace-making at a Vatican conference on “Ethics in Action,” Prof. Thomas K. Johnson, WEA Ambassador to the Vatican, asked the photographers to come to the front. He then publicly shook hands with the Iranian Shiite Ayatollah Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, a prominent international spokesman for his variety of Islam.