The devastating Situation Christian Minorities face in non-democratic Countries
ARTICLE Why Christianity increasingly suffers from discrimination and persecution
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ARTICLE Why Christianity increasingly suffers from discrimination and persecution
In December 2015, three Christians in the Sudan were arrested – a local pastor, one of his co-workers, and one Czech aid worker. The charges did not directly have to do with religion. Rather, they officially had to do with criminal actions against the state which could have promoted revolution. Nevertheless, what developed were worldwide protests.
A rare picture: Two Christians discussing with two Muslim politicians working for peace, human rights and religious freedom.
Together with members of the Royal Ghassanid family from Lebanon and Jordan including Prince Gharios and Sheikh El Chemor, which ruled Lebanon until the 18th century, I had the privilege to discuss religious freedom with the President of Lebanon.
His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II was invited to give a talk in a discussion panel on “Protecting Freedom of Belief and Christian Minorities in Zones of Conflict.”
Being interviewed on religious freedom on the International Lounge at Congress of Christian Businessmen in Nuremberg and an interview at UN conference at the Un Human Rights Council in Geneva over religious freedom
Pictures of the meeting with the Foreign Minister of Brazil, Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho, on April 4th 2017 in Brasília.