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Religious freedom experts criticize the initiative of Islamic states in the UN Human Rights Council
Bielefeldt and Schirrmacher hold a public discussion in a Nuremberg church In a joint event in the Langwasser Free Church (in German, Freie Christengemeinde Langwasser, related to the Czech Brethren tradition) in Nuremberg, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the freedom of religion and belief, Prof. Dr. Heiner Bielefeldt, and the Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom ... [Read more]
The International Leadership Team of the World Evangelical Alliance
The International Leadership Team of the World Evangelical Alliance consists of the two general secretaries (in the middle to my right and my left), the financial and administration heads, the general secretaries of the 6 regions, the chair and directors of the commissions, the leaders of the initiaves, task forces and global partners. The picture does not only look nice and harmonious, but the ... [Read more]
Global and integrated Learning: Helping the next Generation around the world to de-cide on World View, Life Style, and Knowledge
Statement at the International Council of Higher Education, Singapore Here is my statement given on behalf of the board of Martin Bucer European Seminary and Research Institutes and on behalf of the World Evangelical Fellowship at the symposium of the International Council of Higher Education in Singapore. Conversions from one world view to the other, from one religion to the other, and from one lifestyle ... [Read more]
Schirrmacher meets with Victims of Attack in Alexandria
Shortly after midnight on January 1, 2011 a car bomb exploded with approximately 100 kg of explosives in front of the Al-Qiddissine Church in Alexandria. This was after police, who due to warnings had guarded the worship service, conspicuously withdrew from the area. Of the around 1,000 visitors at the New Year’s worship service, ninety-seven were injured, among them eight Muslims, and twenty-one ... [Read more]
Archbishop Aktas informs the Worldwide Evangelical Alliance about the Situation at Mor Gabriel
(Bonn, 26.08.2011) The Director of the World Evangelical Alliance’s International Institute for Religious Freedom and Board Member of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), Thomas Schirrmacher, has been personally informed of the status of negotiations surrounding the threatened Syrian Orthodox Monastery Mor Gabriel by the abbot of the monastery and by the monastery’s attorney. At the ... [Read more]
Religious Freedom in Europe: Expertise for the German Parlament
My written statement for the German federal parlament (Deutscher Bundestag) end of October 2010 (see here) has been translated into English meanwhile by my able translator Dr. Richard McClary. PDF-Download mehr →
An Overview of the 5-year process leading to the launch of recommendations for a Code of Conduct
In the Great Hall of the World Council of Churches while publishing the code, Schirrmacher speaking, from left to right: Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata (Sekretary, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID)), Jean-Louis Pierre Cardinal Tauran (President, PCID), Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit (General Secretary, World Council of Churches), Dr. Geoff Tunicliffe (General Secretary, World Evangelical Alliance ... [Read more]
Interacting with Roman Catholic Teaching
My book on “Indulgences” was translated from German to English and will be released in September. My preface deals in general, how Protestants should deal with Roman Catholic Teaching: The Roman Catholic Church and its 1.1 billion members, under the leadership of the Pope, is by far the largest organization in history. It is also the oldest organization to exist without interruption in history, ... [Read more]
A response to the high counts of Christian martyrs per year
For many years one number has been provided every year to report on the annual number of Christian martyrs. This is provided by the “Status of Global Mission.” The number is quoted by various institutions but only produced by one institution. At present it is most frequently quoted by the papal missions agency “Aid to the Church in Need”. It reports 130,000 – 170,000 martyrs per year but ... [Read more]
John Stott – Man of Complementarity
The World Evangelical Alliance just published my obituary for John Stott here. John Stott, the main author of the theological preamble of the constitution of the World Evangelical Alliance and the one that initiated our journal ‘Evangelical review of Theology’, is now seeing Jesus, who was the focus of his life in all he did, said and wrote. What is thought to be his best book, ‚The Cross of ... [Read more]
Prof. Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Thomas Schirrmacher, PhD, DD, (born 1960) is speaker for human rights and executive chair of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance, speaking for appr. 600 million Christins, . He is also director of its International Institute for Religious Freedom (Bonn, Cape Town, Colombo) 