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Christianity & Politics

  • Thomas Schirrmacher with the President of Armenia, Armen Sarkissjan © BQ/Schirrmacher

    Audience with the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Armenian President

    The Chairman of the Central Council of Oriental Christians and Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Schirrmacher, was received by the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, for an audience with his wife, the Bonn Islamic scholar Christine Schirrmacher, after they had commemorated the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian genocide from 1915 in the Genocide Memorial Complex Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan.

    Thursday December 13th, 2018 / Christianity & Politics, Special topics politics, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religion & State

     
  • Thomas Schirrmacher has less than one minute to speak as an expert appointed by the CDU at the Human Rights Committee’s hearing on “Troubled Ethnic Groups” in the German Bundestag. On the left next to him in the circle the other six experts who nominated the parties, two places to the left Prof. Khorchide, also nominated by the CDU. Behind him are the MdBs of the AfD and of the FDP, on the right the MdBs of the CDU, and on the far right the Federal Government Commissioner for International Religious Freedom, Markus Grübel, MdB © BQ/Warnecke

    Experts: Ethnic minorities face multiple threats

    Expert hearing in the Human Rights Committee of the German Bundestag

    Wednesday December 5th, 2018 / German parliament, Christianity & Politics, Special topics human rights, ProMundis Blog, Religious Freedom

     
  • Press conference on the Yearbook ‘Religionsfreiheit’ with (left to right): Prof. Heribert Hirte, MdB, Markus Grübel, MdB, Martin Lessenthin (IGFM), Thomas Schirrmacher (IGFM), Uwe Heimowski (DEA) © BQ/Warnecke

    Asia Bibi is a “classic case of political asylum”

    New Yearbooks ‘Religionsfreiheit 2018’ and ‘Verfolgung und Diskriminierung von Christen 2018’ presented

    Monday December 3rd, 2018 / Christianity & Politics, Persecution of Christians, ProMundis Blog, Religious Freedom

     
  • Schirrmacher talks with the President of Korea, the Joint Chief of staff and with the Commanding General of the 8th US army about a peaceful reunification

    Schirrmacher talks with the President of Korea, the Joint Chief of staff and with the Commanding General of the 8th US army about a peaceful reunification

    Interviews with Thomas Schirrmacher

    Friday August 17th, 2018 / Christianity & Politics, Democracy, Special topics human rights, Special topics ecumenical relations, Special topics politics, Evangelicals, Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog, Religion & State

     
  • (from left) Hermann Gröhe, Heiner Bielefeldt, Thomas Schirrmacher © Martin Warnecke/IIRF

    Schirrmacher thanks Hermann Gröhe for the “most momentous rebuke in all my life”

    Thomas Schirrmacher published his speech at the opening of the religious freedom chair at the Gießen School of Theology. In it he thanks Hermann Gröhe for the “most momentous rebuke in all my life”.

    Monday June 25th, 2018 / German parliament, Christianity & Politics, Persecution of Christians, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom

     
  • (from left) Heiner Bielefeldt, Markus Grübel, Christof Sauer, Hermann Gröhe, Thomas Schirrmacher, Manuel Lösel © Martin Warnecke/IIRF

    Religious Freedom is a Human Right

    A professorship dedicated to the topic of “religious freedom and research on persecution of Christians” is a novelty in German speaking areas. At the inauguration special emphasis was placed on the universality of the human right to freedom of religion or belief and its positive implications.

    Friday June 22nd, 2018 / Christianity & Politics, Special topics politics, Special topics theology, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom

     
  • Thomas Schirrmacher in conversation with Christoph Cardinal Schönborn on 29.5.2018 in the National Council in Vienna about conversion and asylum proceedings © BQ/Warnecke

    Statement on the symposium on conversion in asylum procedures

    Thanks to the German Bishops’ Conference and the Protestant Church in Germany for the symposium “Conversion to Christianity in the Context of Asylum Procedure”

    Monday June 18th, 2018 / Christianity & Politics, Persecution of Christians, Special topics Society, Special topics politics, ProMundis Blog

     
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About meArchbishop and Professor Dr. Thomas Paul Schirrmacher is President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights, President of the International Institute for Religious Freedom, Co-President of Religions for Peace and President of the Bonn Abrahamic Center for Global Peace, Justice and Sustainability (BAC). Read more …

 
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