Meeting with the Foreign Minister of Brazil
Pictures of the meeting with the Foreign Minister of Brazil, Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho, on April 4th 2017 in Brasília.
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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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Schirrmacher thanks the Württemberg Synod
The President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights, Thomas Schirrmacher, gave a plenary lecture to the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg in Heilbronn on the topic “Human Rights in the One World.” Schirrmacher had been proposed and invited by representatives of the 'Open Church' discussion group (comparable to parliamentary groups or factions).
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“Stumbling Block” presented as a Gift – Pakistani Lawyer and Schirrmacher meet Pope Francis
After the last general audience with Pope Francis prior to the summer break, the Pakistani human rights lawyer Aneeqa Anthony has presented a painted brick as a symbol for the numerous Christians enslaved in brick factories in Pakistan. The President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), Thomas Schirrmacher, and the leader of the ISHR's Department for Religious Freedom, Michaela Koller, arranged the meeting and accompanied the lawyer.
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Protect Muslims; suppress Islamists
“The secular state must equally guarantee freedom of religion for freedom loving Muslims and use its monopoly on the use of force to suppress those Islamists who are enemies of freedom of religion.”
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Top Scholars discuss at Oxford why religious Freedom receives so little Research Attention
Im Rahmen der in Oxford tagenden ‚Religious Liberty Partnership‘, einem Netzwerk globaler NGOs, die sich für Religionsfreiheit einsetzen, haben führende Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen diskutiert, wieso Fragen der Verletzung der Religionsfreiheit von der wissenschaftlichen Forschung so stiefmütterlich behandelt werden.