Protecting Freedom of Belief & Christian Minorities in Zones of Conflict
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.”
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Schirrmacher’s two new Youtube films
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
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Meeting the Great Imam of Lahore
Thomas Schirrmacher thanking the Great Imam of Lahore, Syed Muhammad Abdul Khabir Azad, leading the second largest mosque in the world with up to 100.000 visitors on Fridays, that he several times stoped a mob, that want to burn Christian quarters
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Review of the seventh edition of my book „Koran und Bibel“
A german review of the book „Koran und Bibel“ by Anna Müller.
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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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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.”