Volkmar Klein and Thomas Schirrmacher visit the Special Advisor for Religious Minorities in the Near East and South/Central Asia in the State Department in Washington
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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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Top Scholars discuss at Oxford why religious Freedom receives so little Research Attention
Im Rahmen der in Oxford tagenden ‚Religious Liberty Partnership‘, einem Netzwerk globaler NGOs, die sich für Religionsfreiheit einsetzen, haben führende Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen diskutiert, wieso Fragen der Verletzung der Religionsfreiheit von der wissenschaftlichen Forschung so stiefmütterlich behandelt werden.
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An open Letter from Christian Troll and Thomas Schirrmacher to Aiman Mazyek – regarding Mazyek’s Warning to Churches on aggressive Missions
Suggestion for an interreligious Code of Ethics for Missions This article was originally published in 2016 and didn’t appear on my blog until now. (Bonn, 01.08.2016) Media reports state that Aiman Mazyek, Chairman of the […]
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WEA wants to collaborate on the security of all countries through freedom of religion
WEA has pledged to do everything in its power to help build peaceful societies by advocating religious freedom and peace initiatives between religious communities.
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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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Johnson and Schirrmacher visit Ambassador Schawan
(Bonn, 16.12.2016) The Ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) to the Vatican, Prof. Dr. Thomas K. Johnson (Prague/Rome), and the Deputy General Secretary of the WEA, Thomas Schirrmacher (Bonn), paid a courtesy visit to […]