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Under the title “Cyber-Jihad – Goals, Dimensions, Structures and Combating a Global Challenge,” the Hanns Seidel Foundation, in cooperation with the Central Council of Oriental Christians in Germany, invited participation in an international expert conference held at the Bavarian Wildbad Kreuth.
(Bonn, 26.03.2015) Since the terror attacks in Paris at the beginning of the year, themes such as integration and Identity, the relation of foundational democratic values with religions, as well as religious fundamentalism and violence, […]
In Thailand police stations are overrun by Muslim extremists; in Mali the government was temporarily toppled by them; Yemen is, as a result of Islamists, ungovernable. In Syria,Japanese hostages are killed by Islamists, and a […]
A commentary by the Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom, Thomas Schirrmacher, on the most recent pronouncement by the Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama has decided that he does not wish to have […]
Focus magazine reports on the civil war in Iraq – as many other forms of media have: “Everywhere in the city there are posters hanging which order families to give up their unmarried daughters – for […]
Arbeitsgespräch mit Minister Yusupov und Sheikh Mansur (Bonn, 26.05.2014) Die Islamwissenschaftlerin Prof. Dr. Christine Schirrmacher und der Religionssoziologe Prof. Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher haben sich bei der usbekischen Regierung für Religionsfreiheit eingesetzt. Sie führten dazu ein […]
The Ambassador for Human Rights of the World Evangelical Alliance and Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom presented the concerns of Christians in a one-hour meeting with the Muslim President of Albania, Bujar […]