IIRF was co-sponsor of The Second Global Summit on Religion, Peace and Security
Schirrmacher calls for a closer cooperation of the ’Dialogue-Five-Actors‘
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IIRF announces new book series “Christians under Pressure: Studies on Discrimination and Persecution”
The International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) announces a new scholarly series: “Christians under Pressure: Studies on Discrimination and Persecution”. The first two volumes have already been published.
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Audience with the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Armenian President
The Chairman of the Central Council of Oriental Christians and Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Schirrmacher, was received by the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, for an audience with his wife, the Bonn Islamic scholar Christine Schirrmacher, after they had commemorated the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian genocide from 1915 in the Genocide Memorial Complex Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan.
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Experts: Ethnic minorities face multiple threats
Expert hearing in the Human Rights Committee of the German Bundestag
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Asia Bibi is a “classic case of political asylum”
New Yearbooks ‘Religionsfreiheit 2018’ and ‘Verfolgung und Diskriminierung von Christen 2018’ presented
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Schirrmacher: Christians easily become victims
Freedom of religion is a fundamental human right. Where it is violated, other human rights are also in a bad state. This view was proposed by Thomas Schirrmacher (Bonn), Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, on November 1st in Wuppertal.
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Schirrmacher thanks 40.000 Ahmadiyyas for the Engagement for Religious Freedom
The president of the International Council of the ISHR and Director of the IIRF, Professor Thomas Schirrmacher, thanked the 40.000 participants of the Ahmadiyya Jalsa Salana in Karlsruhe for not only enjoying religious freedom in Germany after having fled death threats in Pakistan, but in turn loud and insisting called for religious freedom and against any violence or compulsion in religion.