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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.
Dramatic attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Ahlu Sunnah wa Jamaa (ASWJ) in late March killed hundreds of people in northern Mozambique and have forced thousands to flee, according to reports from local sources.
Christine and Thomas Schirrmacher have visited Lutheran churches on four of the five main islands of the Faroe Islands at the end of last year. They attended the service of the Hósvíkar Church, visited a confirmation class in the Sandavadur Church and documented about half of the 58 churches on the island.
At its annual conference, the Evangelische Forum für Mission, Kultur und Religion e. V. (Evangelical Forum for Mission, Culture and Religion), briefly named ‘missiotop’, which belongs to the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, elected Dr. Martin Heißwolf as its new chairman.
MBS TEXTE 56 In hard times we recognize the urgency of God’s unchanging will
The latest issue of the Theological News, the newsletter of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance, a quarterly news sheet, is published and can be downloaded as PDF.
As representatives of the Department for Theological Concerns of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), Thomas and Christine Schirrmacher visited the two most important evangelical theological training centres in Australia, the Anglican Moore Theological College and the Baptist Morling College, both of which cooperate with the University of Sydney.