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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.
The latest issue of the Theological News, the newsletter of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance, a quarterly four page news sheet, is published and can be downloaded.
Starting from Baltrum, we went on a round flight over six East Frisian islands. Thus we flew over (from west to east) (Memmert), Juist, Norderney, Baltrum, Langeoog, Spiekeroog and Wangerooge (Minsener Oog), with stopover in Harle (Harlesiel), in fairest weather on the sea-side as well as on the waddon-, respectively land-side, perfect visibility and low tide.
WRF members Thomas Schirrmacher and Thomas Johnson discuss “Collaboration without Compromise”
ANSWER An answer to the Open Letter “Is the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) Moving Away from its Historic Position on Unity?” of December 6, 2017
I recently visited Desmond Tutu's former home in Soweto. The 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Horn is, alongside Nelson Mandela, a symbolic figure of dismantling apartheid in his country.
As every year, the Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom and International President of the International Society for Human Rights presented the two German Yearbooks on Religious Freedom (Jahrbuch Religionsfreiheit 2017) and the Yearbook on the Persecution and Discrimination of Christians (Jahrbuch Verfolgung und Diskriminierung von Christen 2017) to Pope Francis personally.
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 …
