Benedict is mistaken here!
A year ago in April 2019, Pope Benedict published a letter intended to explain how the abuse scandal within the Catholic Church came about – A commentary by Thomas Schirrmacher
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Radical Islamic Violence Surges in Northern Mozambique, Killing Hundreds
Dramatic attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Ahlu Sunnah wa Jamaa (ASWJ) in late March killed hundreds of people in northern Mozambique and have forced thousands to flee, according to reports from local sources.
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Living in the Last Days?
ARTICLE I have been ask to provide a short version of my essay ‘Do We Need a Special Ethics for the Last Days?’. Peirong Lin, our research coordinator, was so nice to provide it, here it is.
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Global Evangelical and Muslim organizations launch major joint religious freedom project
Leading figures in the world’s largest Muslim organization and the world’s largest Evangelical Christian organization announced today that they are undertaking an ambitious joint effort to reshape how the world thinks about religion and to counter two threats to religious freedom and to society more broadly: religious extremism and secular extremism.
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Faroe Islands: The smallest state church in the world
Christine and Thomas Schirrmacher have visited Lutheran churches on four of the five main islands of the Faroe Islands at the end of last year. They attended the service of the Hósvíkar Church, visited a confirmation class in the Sandavadur Church and documented about half of the 58 churches on the island.
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“The Pope’s most loved Protestant”
With these words, Prof. Dr. Daniel Philpott from the University of Notre Dame opened Thomas Schirrmacher’s lecture in the Pontifical University Urbaniana in December 2015.
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Archbishop Anastasios is one of the most important Missions and Religious Studies Scholars
Thomas Schirrmacher congratulated the head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, Anastasios Yannoulatos (90), upon receiving the 2020 Klaus Hemmerle Prize and described him as one of the most important living missions and religious studies scholars.
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 …
