Global Christian Forum News 2018
The newsletter of the Global Christian Forum highlights the Third Global Gathering of the GCF held in Bogotá, Colombia (24–27 April, 2018). It includes my evaluation of the event.
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Invited by the Lutheran bishop in Jerusalem
The Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has now personally expressed his belated congratulation to Ibrahim Azar, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELKJHL), based in the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem, on his new ministry and wished him God’s blessing and wisdom for his difficult task as a mediator.
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Schirrmacher gives ecumenical “Bishop’s sermon” in Neumarkt, Bavaria
The Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance has given the annual ecumenical Bishop’s sermon on the persecution of Christians in the cathedral of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate (Bavaria), which has been held since 2014.
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Theological News 4/2018 is published
The latest issue of the Theological News, the newsletter of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance, a quarterly four page news sheet, is published and can be downloaded.
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Howell and Schirrmacher hand Pope Francis four books and reports
Richard Howell and Thomas Schirrmacher hand Pope Francis reports on persecution in India, by the Global Christian Forum and by the World Evangelical Alliance
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Schirrmacher talks with the President of Korea, the Joint Chief of staff and with the Commanding General of the 8th US army about a peaceful reunification
Interviews with Thomas Schirrmacher
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Schirrmacher makes his speech at the Global Christian Forum publicly available
Due to the criticism, that he had abandoned the doctrinal foundations of the Christian faith in favour of a purely experiential religion in a speech given in Bogotá at the Global Christian Forum, the Associate Secretary-General for Theological Concerns of the World Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Schirrmacher, has now made his speech available to the public in German and in English language.