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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“.
The Associate Secretary General of World Evangelical Alliance, being among other things responsible for interreligious dialogue of this network of 600 million Protestants, calls upon top religious leaders worldwide to sign the UNHCHR’s “Beirut Declaration on ‘Faith for Rights’ (FAR)” and to help to fulfill UN’s Rabat Plan of Action.
One of two Christian governors of Indonesia, the governor of Jakarta and therewith the most important Christian politician of the country, Tjahaja Purnamas, briefly called ‘Ahok’, was not permitted to stand for his sure re-election, because there was a case of blasphemy pendent against him. The sole reason for this commotion – in this friend and foe agree – was not the concern about god or a holy book, but rather the prevention of his re-election.
Here you find my review, in which I as president of the International Council of the International Society of Human Rights (ISHR) recommend the new book of Rudolf Decker about Africa as pioneering.
The Bonn Publishing house Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft (Culture and Science Publ.) has published a new volume on the background of the theocracy in Iran.
Für viele Christen hat das ‚Volk‘ im Sinne einer Abstammungsgemeinschaft eine ebenso von Gott eingesetzte Qualität wie Familie, Kirche, Arbeit/Wirtschaft oder Staat. Während wir jedoch für die genannten vier Institutionen klare Belege dafür in der […]
Ein Auszug daraus erschien in der Evangelischen Zeitung Gemessen an der Lage eines Großteil der Weltchristenheit in Ländern ohne wirkliche Religionsfreiheit ist es vermessen, in den westlichen Demokratien von der Gefahr der Christenverfolgung zu sprechen. […]