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Religious Freedom

  • (from left) Heiner Bielefeldt, Markus Grübel, Christof Sauer, Hermann Gröhe, Thomas Schirrmacher, Manuel Lösel © Martin Warnecke/IIRF

    Religious Freedom is a Human Right

    A professorship dedicated to the topic of “religious freedom and research on persecution of Christians” is a novelty in German speaking areas. At the inauguration special emphasis was placed on the universality of the human right to freedom of religion or belief and its positive implications.

    22. June 2018 / Christianity & Politics, Special topics politics, Special topics theology, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom

     
  • Stephanus-Prize for Persecuted Christians awarded to Cardinal Zen

    Stephanus-Prize for Persecuted Christians awarded to Cardinal Zen

    On April 7th, the “Stephanus-Prize for Persecuted Christians” was awarded in Bonn to Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, the former bishop of Hongkong, for his courage and his persistence in decades of strong engagement for the rights of freedom, notably of religious freedom.

    15. June 2018 / Persecution of Christians, Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom

     
  • Part of the lecture hall during the seminar © IIRF/Martin Warnecke

    Director of IIRF lectures on religious freedom at Vietnams Academy of Politics

    The Institute of Human Rights along with the Institute of Religion and Beliefs co-organized a scientific seminar titled “Limits of Religious Freedom Rights” on March 6th, 2018 with the participation of lecturers and researchers from these two institutes, a large number of master’s students majored in Laws of Human Rights and Religious studies.

    7. June 2018 / Special topics human rights, Menschenrechte allgemein, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom

     
  • Participants of the panel from the left: Danielle Turkov Wilson (Think Film Impact Production), Dilnoza Satarova (ODHIR), Jan Figel (EU special envoy on FORB), Ann Shin (MEMB director), Katherine Cash (NORFORB), Juliana Sfeir (SAT-7 Academy), Ahmed Shaheed (UN special rapporteur on FORB) and Dr Dwayne Menezes (Think Film Impact Production) © FORB

    WEA and IIRF congratulate on the launch of The Freedom of Religion or Belief Learning Platform

    The World Evangelical Alliance and its International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) want to congratulate the Nordic Ecumenical Network on International Freedom of Religion or Belief (NORFORB) on the launch of The Freedom of Religion or Belief Learning Platform.

    6. April 2018 / Special topics politics, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom

     
  • A Report on the Right to Religious Freedom in the World Context

    A Report on the Right to Religious Freedom in the World Context

    Lecture by Prof. Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher: “Um relatório do Direito de Liberdade Religiosa no contexto mundial” / “A Report on the Right to Religious Freedom in the World Context”

    23. February 2018 / Media, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom

     
  • Christian Democratic Parties in Europe & International Religious Freedom

    Christian Democratic Parties in Europe & International Religious Freedom

    The Institute on Religion & Democracy, Providence Magazine & the Hanns Seidel Foundation co-hosted a discussion with scholar Thomas Schirrmacher about Christian Democratic parties in Europe and German-American collaboration on international religious freedom.

    6. February 2018 / Democracy, Media, Religious Freedom

     
  • The Professors Sauer, Bielefeldt and Schirrmacher at the Congress “Christenverfolgung” (“Persecution of Christians”) in Schwäbisch Gmünd, 2013 © BQ / Vogt

    Competing Interpretations

    The Co-Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom, Prof. Dr. Christof Sauer, welcomes in an extensive analysis that the “Ecumenical report on the religious freedom of Christians around the world” has renewed attention for the discrimination and persecution of Christians.

    2. February 2018 / Persecution of Christians, Special topics ecumenical relations, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom

     
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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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