
Best protection possible: Under the blessing of African bishops, pastors and friends at the Global Christian Forum in Bogota, Columbia. In the middle the new secretary of the GCF, Casely Essamuah from Ghana, with his wife.

Christians that think there are more holy than others should move to the “Oberes Gerechtigkeitsgässchen” (Upper Justice Alleys) at Bern Cathedral

Photo of the official photographer of the Federal Minister for Human Development minutes before a hearing on religious freedom (2014)

The Claw! Lecture, Summit by Federal and State Security Institutions, Hanns Seidel Foundation, Wildbad Kreuth (2015)

With faculty and students of Martin Bucer Seminary in Caesarea Maritima in Israel – on top of me our archaeologist Alexander Schick

Laughing with the presidents of the German and Austrian Bishops Conference, Cardinal Marx and Cardinal Schönborn, Munich and Vienna, in the hall of the synod building of the Vatican (2015)

This is the result of the wrong perspective of a photographer: With the ambassador of Italy in Albania in the Italian Embassy

As James Bond on the Swiss mountain Schilthorn, where the film “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” was filmed Thomas James Bond (2013)

Thomas in a sickle shape during a speech given at the Religious Freedom Concert by the Romanian Parliament in Bukarest’s Opera House (2013)

During an archaeological excursion in Tel Dan, Israel, I show our students, where the golden calf was standing

The small boys and girls in us: The Religious Liberty Commission of World Evangelical Alliance meeting in our office in Bonn (2011)

The police chief of the State of Hamburg presents me the cap of a police captain after a lecture on human trafficking to his officers (2013)

Wrong way around: With Dean Carsten Friedrich and students in front of the lecture hall of Martin Bucer Seminary in Chemnitz (2009)

Help needed! My deputy repairing my shirt at the General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Busan, Korea (2013)

After a busy day of organizing sleeping at the National Prayer Breakfast in the German Parlament (June 2015)

(from left) Volker Lauder, majority leader in the German Federal Parlament, Erika Steinbach, than chair of the human rights committee of the same, Thomas Schirrmacher, Prelate Karl Jüsten

After a guest lecture in Austria, the Austrian thank me with this T-shirt. No hau is how you pronounce "know how", but in German means "You will not be beaten" (2010)

Loriot: During the large Loriot exhibition. Loriot was the best known German cabaretist and always did sit on this seat in the same position.

This how the famous Japanese caricaturist Tomokazu Tabata sees me. He is winner of several prices of the International Society for Caricature Artists (www.caricature.org)

The marathon meetings of the General Assembly of the World Evangelical Alliance in Pattaya, Thailand takes its toll (October 29, 2008)

Taken in front of our hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, USA outside of Washington, D.C. (September 2007)