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The German newsletter on persecution of Christians of the International Society for Human Rights has endorsed your German yearbooks on religious freedom and on the persecution and discrimination of Christians. It also quotes in length from my advocacy for the unguilty improsined former major of Jakarta, „Ahok“.
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher: “Um relatório do Direito de Liberdade Religiosa no contexto mundial” / “A Report on the Right to Religious Freedom in the World Context”
The Institute on Religion & Democracy, Providence Magazine & the Hanns Seidel Foundation co-hosted a discussion with scholar Thomas Schirrmacher about Christian Democratic parties in Europe and German-American collaboration on international religious freedom.
The Co-Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom, Prof. Dr. Christof Sauer, welcomes in an extensive analysis that the “Ecumenical report on the religious freedom of Christians around the world” has renewed attention for the discrimination and persecution of Christians.
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.
Schirrmacher was a plenary speaker at the International Religious Liberty Association's 8th World Congress on Religious Freedom, August 22-24, 2017, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Bp Efraim M. Tendero, Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, together with Bp Thomas Schirrmacher, Associate Secretary General for Theological Concerns, paid a visit to His Excellency Dr. Gjorge Ivanov, President of the Republic of Macedonia.