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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.
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’.
WEA has pledged to do everything in its power to help build peaceful societies by advocating religious freedom and peace initiatives between religious communities.
In late November the 3 day “Global Summit on Religion, Peace and Security” was held at the UN in Geneva to address the spread of violent extremism, which manipulates and misuses religion to justify brutal violence against civilians.
(Bonn, 13.05.2016) Stefan Feller, UN Police Adviser and Director, United Nations, addressed several Members of the German Parliament and the Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom about efforts to rebuilt just police structures in […]
An excerpt from this background information appeared in the Stephanus Post of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.
Die Deutsch-Kurdische Juristenvereinigung e.V. hielt ihre Gründungsfeier an der Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main ab. Etwa 300 Gäste aus dem Bundesgebiet sowie der Schweiz verfolgten die Vorstellung und Ausführungen des Vereins. Dieser möchte sich für […]