Discrimination, Persecution, Martyrdom
The Global Christian Forum. Discrimination, Persecution, Martyrdom: Following Christ Together: Report of the international consultation Tirana, 2–4.11.2015.
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Genocide in the Near East. Declaration made at the Vatican Synod
Schirrmacher asks the Pope for institutional Support in Efforts against Discrimination and the Persecution of Christians (Bonn, October 19, 2015) Upon the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Vatican Synod, the World Evangelical Alliance’s representative […]
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Kommentar zur Stellungnahme zu Christen in Asylbewerberunterkünften von Kardinal Marx und Bischof Bedford-Strohm
Von Thomas Schirrmacher, Direktor des Internationalen Instituts für Religionsfreiheit Zu: Stellungnahme des Vorsitzenden der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz, Kardinal Reinhard Marx, und des Vorsitzenden des Rates der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland, Landesbischof Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, zur Situation […]
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International Institute for Religious Freedom audits World Watch List
For the third time the World Watch List of Open Doors has been audited positively by a team of eight scholars of the International Institute for Religious Freedom.
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Theologian Thomas Schirrmacher:
No Curtailments in Matters of Religious FreedomAccording to the conviction of the theologian and sociologist of religion Professor Thomas Schirrmacher (Bonn), Christians can only be effectively protected from persecution where minorities in general have freedom. Engagement for persecuted Christians therefore always presupposes a commitment to general freedom of religion.
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CDU gründet Arbeitsgruppe Christenverfolgung
Diese Meldung stammt ursprünglich aus dem Jahr 2015 und ist bisher nicht in meinem Blog erschienen. (Bonn, 05.06.2015) Die Arbeitsgruppe Christenverfolgung des Bundesfachausschusses Außen-, Sicherheits-, Entwicklungs- und Menschenrechtspolitik der CDU Deutschlands hat sich unter der […]
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Syriac-Orthodox Patriarch thanks the World Evangelical Alliance
(Bonn, May 20, 2015) Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, S. H. Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, heartily thanked the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) – as his predecessor had likewise done – for its intensive […]