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19 years after the establishment of the Global Christian Forum, the representatives of the world Christian community met together in Geneva for a historic meeting to decide on its continuation
I am repeatedly asked about my consecration as a bishop. For those interested from a canonical and historical point of view, here are the details.
INTERVIEW This interview was published by the Austrian Evangelical Alliance after the Bishops Synod on Marriage and Family in the Vatican in 2015.
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.
A delegation of the ZOCD Board and Advisory Board, headed by the Advisory Board Chairman Thomas Schirrmacher, participated in the opening ceremony of the new Syriac Orthodox Church in Giessen. The Advisory Board Chairman participated as a bishop in the ceremony and conveyed the ZOCD’s welcoming words to the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch S.H. Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II and to the Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier.
Das Ehrenoberhaupt der Orthodoxen Kirchen, der Ökumenische Patriarch Bartholomäus informierte die Weltweite Evangelische Allianz (WEA) über die Ergebnisse des Orthodoxen Konzils in Kreta. Anlass war ein Besuch des Vorsitzenden der Theologischen Kommission und Moderators für zwischenkirchliche Beziehungen der Weltweiten Evangelischen am Amtssitz des Patriarchen.