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As representatives of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), Thomas and Christine Schirrmacher visited the national Evangelical Alliances of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, James Marape, has invited Schirrmacher to present his new anti-corruption programme.
The Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Schirrmacher, visited the Evangelical Alliances of Lesotho, Eswatini (Swaziland), South Africa, as well as the emerging Evangelical Alliance in Mozambique for one day each during a trip to the South of Africa.
Thomas and Christine Schirrmacher obtained information in Cambodia about the most important memorials to the massive human rights violations of the Khmer Rouge.
Bp Efraim M. Tendero, Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, together with Bp Thomas Schirrmacher, Associate Secretary General for Theological Concerns, paid a visit to His Excellency Dr. Gjorge Ivanov, President of the Republic of Macedonia.
A new book by Frank Hinkelmann introduces the development of the emergence of the Evangelical movement in its historical and theological perspectives and depicts in the later chapters the various developments in Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Switzerland. For the first time, the author also presents an analysis of the public reception of the Evangelical movement, whereby the focus is on the leading daily and weekly newspapers as well as political magazines in all three countries. A final chapter offers a definition of the term ‘evangelikal’ within a theological perspective.
Changes in the Catholic Church are encouraging Evangelicals to cooperate with it. The Swiss Evangelical Alliance (SEA) has been working in Bern on a sensational working paper.