ZOCD can count on the support of Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
The board of the ZOCD can count on the support of the Bavarian Bishop and EKD Council President Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
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Schirrmacher recommends the documents of the WCC commission meeting
Minutes of the plenary meeting of the Faith and Order Commission in Nanjing June 2019 published
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Schirrmacher criticizes the discussion paper “Christians and Muslims”
Thomas Schirrmacher criticized the guide “‘Christians and Muslims’: discussion paper on a theological determination of the way of the Protestant regional church in Baden“. The „Network of Protestant Christians in Baden“ and the „ChristusBewegung Baden“ had commissioned the theologian and sociologist of religion with an expert opinion of the discussion paper.
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Statement on the symposium on conversion in asylum procedures
Thanks to the German Bishops’ Conference and the Protestant Church in Germany for the symposium “Conversion to Christianity in the Context of Asylum Procedure”
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Mission and dialogue go hand in hand
ARTICLE “Protestant responsibility” (“Evangelische Verantwortung”) of the EAK of the CDU/CSU publishes “critical statement” on the decision of the Rhenish State Synod
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Competing Interpretations
The Co-Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom, Prof. Dr. Christof Sauer, welcomes in an extensive analysis that the “Ecumenical report on the religious freedom of Christians around the world” has renewed attention for the discrimination and persecution of Christians.
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„Human Rights in the One World“
PLENARY SPEECH on „Human Rights in the One World“ at the Synod of the Lutheran Church of Württemberg, 6th July, 2016.
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Kommentar zur Stellungnahme zu Christen in Asylbewerberunterkünften von Kardinal Marx und Bischof Bedford-Strohm
Von Thomas Schirrmacher, Direktor des Internationalen Instituts für Religionsfreiheit Zu: Stellungnahme des Vorsitzenden der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz, Kardinal Reinhard Marx, und des Vorsitzenden des Rates der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland, Landesbischof Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, zur Situation […]