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Ecumenism

  • Screenshot of the zoom session of the International Committee of the Global Christian Forum in September 2020 © BQ/Thomas Schirrmacher

    The Global Christian Forum supports its Youth Commission

    At the annual meeting of the “International Committee” of the Global Christian Fo-rum (GCF) the GCF gave broad support to its Youth Com-mission and the related plans for a platform for direct exchange between young leaders of world Christianity.

    30. September 2020 / Special topics ecumenical relations, ProMundis Blog

     
  • Thomas Schirrmacher in conversation with the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Luis Cardinal Ladaria, in charge of investigating the abuses (2019) © BQ/Thomas Schirrmacher

    One year later: An Evangelical Looks at the Vatican’s Abuse Summit

    The national Conferences of Bishops of the Catholic Church worldwide met at the Vatican in February 2019 for a summit on sexual abuse. Time to look back a year later, as much has happened in some countries, but there is no real progress on the global level.

    26. May 2020 / Evangelicals, Leadership, Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog, Sexuality

     
  • The Pope receives books on the topic of the persecution of Christians © L’Osservatore Romano

    Benedict is mistaken here!

    A year ago in April 2019, Pope Benedict published a letter intended to explain how the abuse scandal within the Catholic Church came about – A commentary by Thomas Schirrmacher

    14. May 2020 / Special ethical topics, Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog

     
  • “The Pope’s most loved Protestant”

    “The Pope’s most loved Protestant”

    With these words, Prof. Dr. Daniel Philpott from the University of Notre Dame opened Thomas Schirrmacher’s lecture in the Pontifical University Urbaniana in December 2015.

    15. April 2020 / Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog

     
  • Thomas Schirrmacher with the prize winner, Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos © BQ/Esther Schirrmacher

    Archbishop Anastasios is one of the most important Missions and Religious Studies Scholars

    Thomas Schirrmacher congratulated the head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, Anastasios Yannoulatos (90), upon receiving the 2020 Klaus Hemmerle Prize and described him as one of the most important living missions and religious studies scholars.

    6. April 2020 / Special topics religions, Mission, Orthodox Churches, ProMundis Blog

     
  • The Faith and Order Commission of WCC meeting in Nanjing © Morfi Xanthi/WCC

    Schirrmacher recommends the documents of the WCC commission meeting

    Minutes of the plenary meeting of the Faith and Order Commission in Nanjing June 2019 published

    24. February 2020 / Evangelicals, World Council of Churches, ProMundis Blog

     
  • WEA and the Vatican release consultation statement,
 highlighting challenges and opportunities

    WEA and the Vatican release consultation statement,
 highlighting challenges and opportunities

    The World Evangelical Alliance and the Roman Catholic Church have jointly released a ground-breaking statement—based on six years of dialogue—which, while acknowledging continuing areas of theological divergence, also calls it “imperative” for Evangelicals and Catholics to work together in addressing the spiritual needs of an increasingly secularized and polarized world.

    15. January 2020 / Articles, Evangelicals, Catholic Church

     
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About me

Über michProf. Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Thomas Schirrmacher, PhD, DD, (born 1960) is President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights, and Associate Secretary General for Theological Concerns (Theology, Theological Education, Intrafaith and Interfaith Relations, Religious Freedom, Research), which networks churches with appr. 600 million conservative Protestant Christians, chair of its theological commission, and director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (Bonn, Cape Town, Colombo, Brasilia), the largest research network for religious freedom and against persecution of Christians and other religions and world views. Read more …

 

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