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Tag: Armenier

  • Thomas Schirrmacher with the President of Armenia, Armen Sarkissjan © BQ/Schirrmacher

    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

     
  • Bishop Thomas Schirrmacher, WEA Associate Secretary General for Theological Concerns, introduces Bishop Nik Nedelchev to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I © BQ/Warnecke

    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

    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

    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

     
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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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