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A threat to religious freedom in the only democracy in the Near East Overall, national religious political parties currently receive about 15% of the vote. And yet as small coalition partners they have gained an […]
The announcement shortly before Christmas 2010 got lost in the whirlpool of events. For the first time, a unit of the German Federal Armed Forces has been stationed in the French Alsace. The 600 soldiers […]
Richard Herzinger has pointed out in a commentary in the German daily newspaper Die Welt entitled “Europa lässt sich von den Judenhassern täuschen“ (“Europe allows itself to be deceived by anti-Semites”) that in Europe one […]
Schon wieder verliere ich einen Freund, der gegen die Verfolgung religiöser Minderheiten angekämpft hat, durch eben diese Verfolgung! Ich hätte ihn Ende März getroffen, so muss ich auf die Ewigkeit bei Gott warten. Unsere englische Meldung als Weltweite Evangelische Allianz findet sich in der englischen Fassung dieses Beitrags. In tiefer Trauer stimme ich dem Auslandsbischof der EKD zu:
My esteemed teacher, the religious studies scholar Karl Hoheisel, has died at the age of 73. He was a kind and friendly person who was always there for others, and at the same time he […]
Nun muss ich mich doch auch einmal zu ‚WikiLeaks‘ zu Wort melden. Man denke einmal, jemand würde einen Postboten überfallen, alle Briefe seines Postwagens öffnen und im Web zugänglich machen. Gegenüber dem, was WikiLeaks tut, […]
Uwe Siemon-Netto, in “Poison directly to the Heart,” which appeared in the Rheinische Merkur newspaper (No. 19, May 7, 2005), wrote the following: “It appears odd that of all people, in the culture war the […]
Archbishop and Professor Dr. Thomas Paul Schirrmacher is President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights, President of the International Institute for Religious Freedom, Co-President of Religions for Peace and President of the Bonn Abrahamic Center for Global Peace, Justice and Sustainability (BAC). Read more …
