WEA Secretary General attends WCC Faith and Order Commission
Secretary General of WEA attends and addresses Faith and Order Commission of World Council of Churches (WCC)
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The Secretary General of WEA attended the virtual Central Committee meeting of the WCC
Schirrmacher and van der Maas attend Central committee Meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC)
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70 years WCC: “Something is starting to move”
70 years ago, on August 23, 1948, the World Council of Churches (WCC) was founded. The theologian Thomas Schirrmacher talks about the history of the “World Council of Churches”, why Catholics are not members – and why he sees a missionary departure also in Germany.
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My article „Mission Respekt“ in the magazine of the Protestant Association of Germany
My article on „Christian Witness in a multi-religious World“ (2011) in the magazine of the Protestant Association of Germany (Evangelischer Bund) is currently only available in German.
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With the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches in South Africa
Pictures with the Faith and Order Commission
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WEA publishes ‘Global Declarations on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Human Rights’
The World Evangelical Alliance published a compendium with 19 global declarations on freedom of religion or belief and human rights in its ‘Global Issues Series’.
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Schirrmacher thanks the Württemberg Synod
The President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights, Thomas Schirrmacher, gave a plenary lecture to the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg in Heilbronn on the topic “Human Rights in the One World.” Schirrmacher had been proposed and invited by representatives of the 'Open Church' discussion group (comparable to parliamentary groups or factions).