Recent Posts

• Religious Dialogue in Azerbaijan

  Christine and Thomas Schirrmacher have paid a visit to the ministry of religious affairs in Azerbaijan as well as to government organizations having to do with the areas of religion and culture. Additionally, they visited the leaders of the different Muslim confessions as well as leaders of the Jewish community and the leadership of the officially recognized denominations within the country (Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran), all in an effort to construct a picture of the situation relating to religious freedom and the status of the dialogue conducted between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Besides that, they also met with the chairpersons of the most important human rights organizations in the country.

  Monday March 13th, 2017 / Special topics ecumenical relations, Special topics religions, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religion & State, Religious Freedom

   
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  World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) offers to send peace representatives to all governments and religious bodies in conflict with Evangelicals

  At the end of his speech on principles of peace-making at a Vatican conference on “Ethics in Action,” Prof. Thomas K. Johnson, WEA Ambassador to the Vatican, asked the photographers to come to the front. He then publicly shook hands with the Iranian Shiite Ayatollah Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, a prominent international spokesman for his variety of Islam.

  Monday March 6th, 2017 / Dialogue with other religions, Special ethical topics, Special topics religions, Catholic Church, Ecumenism, ProMundis Blog

   
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  Schirrmacher thanks the Württemberg Synod

  The President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights, Thomas Schirrmacher, gave a plenary lecture to the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg in Heilbronn on the topic “Human Rights in the One World.” Schirrmacher had been proposed and invited by representatives of the 'Open Church' discussion group (comparable to parliamentary groups or factions).

  Saturday March 4th, 2017 / Special topics human rights, World Council of Churches, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom

   
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  Thomas Schirrmacher expresses Gratitude to Hessian Prime Minister Bouffier upon the occasion of a visit by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch

  A delegation of the ZOCD Board and Advisory Board, headed by the Advisory Board Chairman Thomas Schirrmacher, participated in the opening ceremony of the new Syriac Orthodox Church in Giessen. The Advisory Board Chairman participated as a bishop in the ceremony and conveyed the ZOCD’s welcoming words to the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch S.H. Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II and to the Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier.

  Wednesday March 1st, 2017 / Oriental Churches, Special topics ecumenical relations, Special topics politics, Orthodox Churches, ProMundis Blog

   

• “Stumbling Block” presented as a Gift – Pakistani Lawyer and Schirrmacher meet Pope Francis

  After the last general audience with Pope Francis prior to the summer break, the Pakistani human rights lawyer Aneeqa Anthony has presented a painted brick as a symbol for the numerous Christians enslaved in brick factories in Pakistan. The President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), Thomas Schirrmacher, and the leader of the ISHR's Department for Religious Freedom, Michaela Koller, arranged the meeting and accompanied the lawyer.

  Monday February 27th, 2017 / Persecution of Christians, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom

   

• Thomas Schirrmacher receives the Order of Merit from the Royal House of Ghassan for his Activities relating to Human Rights in the Middle East

  The – no longer governing – oldest royal house in the world, the Christian and Arab ruling house of The Sovereign Imperial and Royal House of Ghassan, has honored Thomas Schirrmacher with the “Magister Praetor” Order of Merit for achievements relating to the planning of a civic central council of Christians in the Near East and Middle East (Oriental Christian Council) and for promoting the House of Ghassan, specifically noting “that he [enabled] the House’s personal contact to Pope Francis and to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.”

  Friday February 24th, 2017 / ProMundis Blog

   
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  Volkmar Klein and Thomas Schirrmacher visit the Special Advisor for Religious Minorities in the Near East and South/Central Asia in the State Department in Washington

   

  Thursday February 23rd, 2017 / ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom