ZOCD can count on the support of Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
The board of the ZOCD can count on the support of the Bavarian Bishop and EKD Council President Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
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One year later: An Evangelical Looks at the Vatican’s Abuse Summit
The national Conferences of Bishops of the Catholic Church worldwide met at the Vatican in February 2019 for a summit on sexual abuse. Time to look back a year later, as much has happened in some countries, but there is no real progress on the global level.
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Benedict is mistaken here!
A year ago in April 2019, Pope Benedict published a letter intended to explain how the abuse scandal within the Catholic Church came about – A commentary by Thomas Schirrmacher
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“The Pope’s most loved Protestant”
With these words, Prof. Dr. Daniel Philpott from the University of Notre Dame opened Thomas Schirrmacher’s lecture in the Pontifical University Urbaniana in December 2015.
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Archbishop Anastasios is one of the most important Missions and Religious Studies Scholars
Thomas Schirrmacher congratulated the head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, Anastasios Yannoulatos (90), upon receiving the 2020 Klaus Hemmerle Prize and described him as one of the most important living missions and religious studies scholars.
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Schirrmacher recommends the documents of the WCC commission meeting
Minutes of the plenary meeting of the Faith and Order Commission in Nanjing June 2019 published
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WEA and the Vatican release consultation statement, highlighting challenges and opportunities
The World Evangelical Alliance and the Roman Catholic Church have jointly released a ground-breaking statement—based on six years of dialogue—which, while acknowledging continuing areas of theological divergence, also calls it “imperative” for Evangelicals and Catholics to work together in addressing the spiritual needs of an increasingly secularized and polarized world.