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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 […]
In 1877 a Pietist theology professor called for an end to the Chinese opium trade Excerpt from Thomas Schirrmacher. Theodor Christlieb und seine Missionstheologie (Theodor Christlieb and His Theology of Mission). Telos: Wuppertal, 1985. “The […]
(Bonn, 25.04.2014) The International Council of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) elected Thomas Schirrmacher, the renowned German human rights activist specialising on human traffikcing and religious freedom, as its new president at its […]
The Ambassador for Human Rights of the World Evangelical Alliance and Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom presented the concerns of Christians in a one-hour meeting with the Muslim President of Albania, Bujar […]
(Bonner Querschnitte No 263) The Ambassador for Human Rights of the World Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Schirrmacher, attended the installation of the new Coptic bishop in the German state of Hessen as the only ecumenical participant. […]
(Bonn, 10.12.2012) The participants of a World Council of Churches (WCC) sponsored hearing on the misuse of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws have urged the Pakistani government to “take realistic and solid steps to stop abuse of the […]
Between two side events on Pakistan and on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) announced Godfrey Yogarajah from Sri Lanka as the new Chair […]