WEA welcomes Book “Christianity” by All Churches in Turkey
Schirrmacher speaks at book launch to the Ecumenical Patriarch and other heads of churches in Turkey
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My teacher Georg Huntemann
On the death of my dear teacher, Georg Huntemann, – especially on ethics and Judaism – my obituary appeared in 2014 in the journal of the Martin Bucer Seminars Glauben und Denken heute in issue 1/2014 together with a classical essay by Huntemann “Eigentum als Schöpfungsordnung Gottes”.
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WEA introduces new ambassador to the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Orthodox Church community
On the occasion of a meeting of the heads of all major churches and confessions of Turkey at the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul, the Associate Secretary General Bishop Thomas Schirrmacher introduced Dr Nikolay (Nik) Nedelchev personally to Bartholomew I, who as Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch is the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.
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Biblical Foundations for 21st Century World Mission
Thomas Schirrmacher. Biblical Foundations for 21st Century World Mission: 69 Theses Toward an Ongoing Global Reformation. World of Theology Series 11. 2018.
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Newsletter on persecution Christian endorses our Yearbooks
The German newsletter on persecution of Christians of the International Society for Human Rights has endorsed your German yearbooks on religious freedom and on the persecution and discrimination of Christians. It also quotes in length from my advocacy for the unguilty improsined former major of Jakarta, „Ahok“.
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Billy Graham’s advice to me
As a young man, I had the rare chance to meet Billy Graham personally. I asked him what he would do differently if he could Iive over again. He replied that before becoming a Christian leader, he would have invested much more time in studying the Bible in depth and being discipled by a respected Bible teacher.
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Competing Interpretations
The Co-Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom, Prof. Dr. Christof Sauer, welcomes in an extensive analysis that the “Ecumenical report on the religious freedom of Christians around the world” has renewed attention for the discrimination and persecution of Christians.