Tag: Armenier

Audience with the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Armenian President

The Chairman of the Central Council of Oriental Christians and Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Schirrmacher, was received by the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, for an audience with his wife, the Bonn Islamic scholar Christine Schirrmacher, after they had commemorated the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian genocide from 1915 in the Genocide Memorial Complex Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan.

13. December 2018 / Christianity & Politics, Special topics politics, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religion & State
WEA introduces new ambassador to the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Orthodox Church community

On the occasion of a meeting of the heads of all major churches and confessions of Turkey at the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul, the Associate Secretary General Bishop Thomas Schirrmacher introduced Dr Nikolay (Nik) Nedelchev personally to Bartholomew I, who as Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch is the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.

20. March 2018 / Special topics ecumenical relations, Evangelicals, Orthodox Churches, ProMundis Blog
Religious Dialogue in Azerbaijan

Christine and Thomas Schirrmacher have paid a visit to the ministry of religious affairs in Azerbaijan as well as to government organizations having to do with the areas of religion and culture. Additionally, they visited the leaders of the different Muslim confessions as well as leaders of the Jewish community and the leadership of the officially recognized denominations within the country (Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran), all in an effort to construct a picture of the situation relating to religious freedom and the status of the dialogue conducted between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Besides that, they also met with the chairpersons of the most important human rights organizations in the country.

13. March 2017 / Special topics ecumenical relations, Special topics religions, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religion & State, Religious Freedom
Opening of the new Armenian Genocide Museum in Byblos

Schirrmacher brings greetings from the General Secretary of the WEA (Bonn, 01.09.2015) On the occasion of the opening of the new Genocide Museum in Byblos, Lebanon and the official centennial commemoration of the Armenian genocide […]

9. July 2016 / Oriental Churches, Persecution of Christians, Special topics human rights, Special topics politics, Catholic Church, Human Rights, Ecumenism, World Council of Churches, Orthodox Churches, Politics, ProMundis Blog, Theology
WEA Secretary General Sends Open Letter to Orthodox and Old Oriental Churches and Christians in 100-years Commemoration of the Genocide of 1915

World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) Secretary General Bp Efraim Tendero sent an open letter to Orthodox and Old Oriental church leaders and Christians, affirming that WEA’s constituency of some 600 million evangelicals will join the global 100-years commemoration of the genocide of the Armenian people that began on April 24 in 1915.

20. June 2016 / Oriental Churches, Ecumenism, ProMundis Blog
100 Years of Genocide: 10 Reasons Why the Turkish Government Is Mistaken

The Turkish government always gives new, different, and sometimes conflicting reasons why the genocide of the Armenians, the Syro-Arameans, and Pontic Greeks was not really genocide.

10. June 2016 / Persecution of Christians, Special topics human rights, Special topics politics, Human Rights, Politics, ProMundis Blog
IIRF on the discrimination of Armenians in Turkey today

In its newest International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) report Thomas Schirrmacher describes the present day discrimination of Armenians in Turkey today.

28. May 2016 / Persecution of Christians, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom
The Armenian Question in Turkey’s Domestic and International Policy

ARTICLE Even if the Armenian question does not have the importance of the Kurd question for Turkey’s domestic policy, it plays a central role for Turkey’s selfunderstanding. What lies at the center is not primarily the everyday discrimination of Armenians which emanates from the population.

22. October 2015 / Articles, Christianity & Politics, Persecution of Christians, Religion & State