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ARTICLE Between 2009 and 2016, the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life published five global reports on religious freedom. They include comprehensive rankings, the development of which were compared in different variations.
Meine Stellungnahme zur Causa Latzel kann hier heruntergeladen werden. Ich veröffentliche meine Gedanken zur Causa Latzel erst jetzt, da ich sie aus der emotionalen erhitzten Debatte seinerzeit heraushalten wollte und ein gediegenes Gespräch mit allen […]
Johannes Kandel publishes an “issue-specific outline with critical comments on the Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Germany”
Menschenrechtsbericht der Türkischen Evangelischen Allianz auf Deutsch veröffentlicht Diese Meldung stammt ursprünglich aus dem Jahr 2015 und ist bisher nicht in meinem Blog erschienen. (Bonn, 18.04.2015) Nach dem letzten Verhandlungstag im Malatya-Mordprozess äußerte die Witwe […]
ARTICLE Within the framework of religious freedom, Muslims are indeed entitled to their own religious buildings, including mosques and minarets, even with a non-amplified call to prayer that is sung. However, discussion is required as to whether a loudspeaker-enhanced prayer call from a minaret does not violate the religious freedom of non-Muslims.
At the International Meeting for Peace organized by the Catholic community Sant’Egidio, one of the largest interreligious meetings for dialogue in the world with leaders of all world religions, the World Evangelical Alliance’s moderator for intrafaith and interfaith relations and human rights and freedom of religion expert, Thomas Schirrmacher, has called upon the international Christian community to awaken from its lethargy and demonstrate a heretofore unequalled level of solidarity in light of the world situation.
The Washington Times writes the following on the numbers of martyrs per year in its ‘Special on Religious Freedom under Assault’ of September 23, 2015, the day of the Pope’s visit: