On the road in Cuba
Pictures of my Cuba journey
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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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Protect Muslims; suppress Islamists
“The secular state must equally guarantee freedom of religion for freedom loving Muslims and use its monopoly on the use of force to suppress those Islamists who are enemies of freedom of religion.”
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Europe and the USA should combine their Expertise in the Battle against Human Trafficking
The President of the International Society for Human Rights at the Atlantic Academy in Kaiserslautern
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ISHR President meets exile government of Abkhazia
The President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), Thomas Schirrmacher, visited the President of the exile government of Abkhazia, Vakhtang Kolbaia, together with the President of the exile Parliament and individual ministers, during a visit to the Georgia Section of the ISHR.
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Against the Backdrop of growing religious Radicalization around the World, Christine and Thomas Schirrmacher call for stronger preventative Measures
60th General Conference of Military Chaplains on the Topic of “Violence within Religions” (Berlin, 24.10.2015) This General Conference held by all Catholic military and chaplains with representatives from many other European countries took place Berlin-Steglitz and […]
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The personal religious stamp of politicians too often becomes a bias in matters of religious freedom
Statements by Thomas Schirrmacher at a panel discussion on 9/15 2014 in the German Bundestag at the C-Congress of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag Human Rights Freedom of Religion – Panel discussion “How do we protect persecuted Christians?”