On the road in Cuba
Pictures of my Cuba journey
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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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World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) offers to send peace representatives to all governments and religious bodies in conflict with Evangelicals
At the end of his speech on principles of peace-making at a Vatican conference on “Ethics in Action,” Prof. Thomas K. Johnson, WEA Ambassador to the Vatican, asked the photographers to come to the front. He then publicly shook hands with the Iranian Shiite Ayatollah Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, a prominent international spokesman for his variety of Islam.
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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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Thomas Schirrmacher expresses Gratitude to Hessian Prime Minister Bouffier upon the occasion of a visit by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch
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.
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Patriarch Bartholomew informs the World Evangelical Alliance about the results of the Orthodox Council in Crete
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.
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The World Evangelical Alliance introduces its new leadership structure to global denominations in Rome
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has introduced its new leadership structure to heads of global denominations in the course of the annual meeting of the Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions (CSCWC).