Protect Muslims; suppress Islamists
“The secular state must equally guarantee freedom of religion for freedom loving Muslims and use its monopoly on the use of force to suppress those Islamists who are enemies of freedom of religion.”
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The 2016 Yearbook on Religious Freedom and the 2016 Yearbook on Christian Persecution and Discrimination are available in advance for download free of charge
The 2016 Yearbook on Religious Freedom contains articles by Angela Merkel, Volker Kauder, Annette Schawan, and Heiner Bielefeldt as well as articles by Alevites, Yazidis, and Baha’i. The 2016 Yearbook on Christian Persecution and Discrimination goes into the question of religious minorities in refugee shelters and deals in particular with China, Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, and Turkey.
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Volkmar Klein and Thomas Schirrmacher visit the new Special Advisor for Religious Minorities in the Near East and South/Central Asia in the State Department in Washington
(Bonn, 18.05.2016) On the occasion of their participation in the 2016 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, two members of the Central Council o Oriental Christians in Germany (Zentralrat Orientalischer Christen in Deutschland, ZOCD), namely the […]
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Pontifical University: Schirrmacher calls all churches to unite in prayer, research and advocacy in face of exploding discrimination and persecution of Christians
The International Institute for Religious Freedom is honored by the US Ambassador for International Religious Freedom
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UN Police Adviser addresses German MPs and Director of IIRF
(Bonn, 13.05.2016) Stefan Feller, UN Police Adviser and Director, United Nations, addressed several Members of the German Parliament and the Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom about efforts to rebuilt just police structures in […]
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The member States of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have 300 million Christian citizens
COMMENTARY A Commentary based on a table of member countries of the OIC and the religion of their citizens – a statistical research project of the International Institute of Religious Freedom (2013, translated 2016).
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The personal religious stamp of politicians too often becomes a bias in matters of religious freedom
Statements by Thomas Schirrmacher at a panel discussion on 9/15 2014 in the German Bundestag at the C-Congress of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag Human Rights Freedom of Religion – Panel discussion “How do we protect persecuted Christians?”