Intervention by the WEA Secretary General in Vatican City
Intervention in Vatican City in the meeting “Religions and Education: Towards a Global Compact on Education: Meeting of the Representatives of Religions”
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“Mission belongs to the essence of the church”
The new Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, Bishop Thomas Schirrmacher, talks in an interview with the “Tagespost” about his ecumenical relationship with Pope Francis, about Christian mission and how he met persecuted Christians as a child.
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Change at the top of the World Evangelical Alliance
Protestant theologian and scholar of sociology of religion Thomas Schirrmacher (60) will be inaugurated on Saturday as the new Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), the representative body of evangelical Christians worldwide. He is the first German to hold this office.
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Catholics and Evangelicals and Their Future Relations
ARTICLE Today, Catholics and evangelicals have friendly relationships of mutual respect and cooperation in many parts of the world, but some criticize this friendliness on theological grounds.
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2016 book on Pope Francis in draft English translation will not be upgraded or published
I have been asked, whether my German book on Pope Francis will ever be published in English. The answer is ‘No’.
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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.
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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