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The new Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, Bishop Thomas Schirrmacher, talks in an interview with the “Tagespost” about his ecumenical relationship with Pope Francis, about Christian mission and how he met persecuted Christians as a child.
I have been asked, whether my German book on Pope Francis will ever be published in English. The answer is ‘No’.
As every year, the Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom and International President of the International Society for Human Rights presented the two German Yearbooks on Religious Freedom (Jahrbuch Religionsfreiheit 2017) and the Yearbook on the Persecution and Discrimination of Christians (Jahrbuch Verfolgung und Diskriminierung von Christen 2017) to Pope Francis personally.
Im Rahmen eines Treffens von evangelikalen und pentekostalen Leitern aus den USA mit Papst Franziskus hat der Vorsitzende der Theologischen Kommission der Weltweiten Evangelischen Allianz (WEA), Thomas Schirrmacher, Papst Franziskus sein neues Buch „Kaffeepausen mit dem Papst: Meine Begegnungen mit Franziskus“ vorgestellt.
Thomas Schirrmacher, “the Pope’s favorite Protestant” (Die WELT), has had frequent meetings and conversations with Pope Francis.
Thomas Schirrmacher paid tribute to Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, upon the occasion of the Pope’s 80th birthday. Schirrmacher acknowledged that Pope Francis is above all a man of integrity who makes the most unusual proclamations and promises come true.
Thomas Schirrmacher has dedicated his book “Coffee Breaks with the Pope” to Cardinal Kurt Koch for his efforts in connection with the “ecumenism of martyrdom.“