WEA Secretary General Congratulates UN Environment Programme to 50th Anniversary
The WEA Secretary General Thomas Schirrmacher Congratulates UN Environment Programme to 50th Anniversary and calls UN Body “Pioneer in Engaging Faith Groups”
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The WEA Secretary General Thomas Schirrmacher Congratulates UN Environment Programme to 50th Anniversary and calls UN Body “Pioneer in Engaging Faith Groups”
The WEA welcomes the resolution agreed upon at the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly to end plastic pollution and forge an international legally binding agreement.
The Union of Victims’ Associations of Communist Tyranny e.V. (UOKG), the Human Rights Center Cottbus (MRZ), the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) and the Memorial Foundation Victims of Communism (VIC) organized a tribunal on “Forced Labor in Political Prison in the GDR”.
At the invitation of the directors of the Center, Paul and Susi Childers, Thomas and Christine Schirrmacher visited the University of the Nations (UoN) in Kailua-Kona (Big Island/Hawaii) as representatives of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA).
In a double guest lecture at PTS College & Advanced Studies in Dasmarinas City, Philippines, the representatives of the World Evangelical Alliance responsible for Islam and for Theological Education, Christine and Thomas Schirrmacher, together with the college management discussed the question of how the subject of Islam could be taken into greater account in the curriculum.
Thomas Schirrmacher has now published in English his speech “Integration is Possible,” delivered at the award ceremony for famous Muslim Professor Bassam Tibi at the University of Frankfurt on November 21, 2019.
SPEECH Address upon the presentation of the 2019 Intellectual Pioneer Prize to Prof. Dr. Bassam Tibi on November 21, 2019 in the Banquet Hall of the University of Frankfurt