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• Terry Jones, please read your Bible and do not place yourself in God’s position!

  A comment by Thomas Schirrmacher, Chairman of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance This blog entry is a supplement to the following German communication in Bonner Querschnitte, translated her from the German: The […]

  Tuesday April 5th, 2011 / ProMundis Blog

   

• The Influence of Jewish Fundamentalism on Legislation in Israel

  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 […]

  Monday March 28th, 2011 / ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom

   

• German Federal Armed Forces are stationed in the Alsace!

  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 […]

  Friday March 18th, 2011 / Special topics Society, ProMundis Blog

   

• Muslim anti-Semites

  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 […]

  Monday March 14th, 2011 / ProMundis Blog

   

• World Evangelical Alliance grieves senseless murder of Minister Shahbaz Bhatti

  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:

  Saturday March 5th, 2011 / Persecution of Christians, ProMundis Blog

   

• Karl Hoheisel, my doctoral adviser, has passed away

  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 […]

  Monday February 28th, 2011 / ProMundis Blog

   

• WikiLeaks und das Grundgesetz

  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, […]

  Tuesday February 22nd, 2011 / Ethics, ProMundis Blog