German Evangelical Alliance honours the commitment of Prof. Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher
The German Evangelical Alliance expressed its great appreciation to Schirrmacher for his many years of dedicated service in many areas of the EAD and the WEA.
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“In the matter of religious freedom Europe owes much to the Evangelical Alliance.”
“Speak freely! Confess freely!” This was the motto under which around 100 Christian lawyers met at the 2019 Federal Conference of “Christ und Jurist” [“Christian and Jurist”] (German Christian Legal Society).
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20 years of Asking for and Watching God’s initiative
In 2016 I wrote the following text for the 20th anniversary of the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church.
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VKW releases a Book on the Conceptual History of the German Word ‘evangelikal’
A new book by Frank Hinkelmann introduces the development of the emergence of the Evangelical movement in its historical and theological perspectives and depicts in the later chapters the various developments in Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Switzerland. For the first time, the author also presents an analysis of the public reception of the Evangelical movement, whereby the focus is on the leading daily and weekly newspapers as well as political magazines in all three countries. A final chapter offers a definition of the term ‘evangelikal’ within a theological perspective.
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My word of greeting at the inauguration of the new Chair of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany
Read at the inauguration March 15, 2017 in Schwäbisch-Gmünd in the south of Germany
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The German language 2015 Yearbook on Christian Persecution and Discrimination of Christians and the 2015 Yearbook on Religious Freedom are available for download
Schon vor dem Erscheinungstermin am 03.11.2015 stehen das Jahrbuch Verfolgung und Diskriminierung von Christen 2015 und das Jahrbuch Religionsfreiheit 2015 ab sofort kostenlos zum Download und zum freien Einstellen und Bereitstellen auf anderen Webseiten bereit.
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Evangelische Allianz gegen Diskriminierung von Homosexuellen
Zum Thema Homosexualität schreibt die Deutsche Evangelische Allianz in ihrer Stellungnahme zu allen wichtigen Politikfeldern „Sucht der Stadt Bestes“ von 2010: „Wir wenden uns ebenso gegen die Diskriminierung aufgrund des Geschlechts und der geschlechtlichen Orientierung, […]