IIRF was co-sponsor of The Second Global Summit on Religion, Peace and Security
Schirrmacher calls for a closer cooperation of the ’Dialogue-Five-Actors‘
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Schirrmacher calls for a closer cooperation of the ’Dialogue-Five-Actors‘
Exploring responses to religious discrimination and persecution.
For the sixth time the World Watch List of Open Doors has been audited positively by a team of five scholars of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF).
Expert hearing in the Human Rights Committee of the German Bundestag
New Yearbooks ‘Religionsfreiheit 2018’ and ‘Verfolgung und Diskriminierung von Christen 2018’ presented
Freedom of religion is a fundamental human right. Where it is violated, other human rights are also in a bad state. This view was proposed by Thomas Schirrmacher (Bonn), Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, on November 1st in Wuppertal.
The president of the International Council of the ISHR and Director of the IIRF, Professor Thomas Schirrmacher, thanked the 40.000 participants of the Ahmadiyya Jalsa Salana in Karlsruhe for not only enjoying religious freedom in Germany after having fled death threats in Pakistan, but in turn loud and insisting called for religious freedom and against any violence or compulsion in religion.