IIRF was co-sponsor of The Second Global Summit on Religion, Peace and Security
Schirrmacher calls for a closer cooperation of the ’Dialogue-Five-Actors‘
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ANAJURE 2019 – Opening with Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher
Exploring responses to religious discrimination and persecution.
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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.
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Beirut Statement “Faith for Rights (F4R)” and 18 Commitments to “Faith for Rights” now also available in German
Die Beirut Erklärung „Faith for Rights (F4R)“ sowie das Dokument „18 Commitments on ‚Faith for Rights‘“ sind jetzt auch auch auf Deutsch verfügbar.
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Religion: Cause or cure for inequalities in society?
Discussion at Global Media Forum 2018 with Prof. James D. Bindenagel, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed and Prof. Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Thomas Schirrmacher
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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”.
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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.