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The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) expresses its deep concern over escalating violence in the Holy Land and calls upon all sides to exercise restraint and cease retaliatory actions that exacerbate the conflict, threatening the lives of innocent civilians.
At this landmark event with more than a thousand listeners the questions posed were, is religion an instigator or a peacemaker in conflicts and pisions in society? To address such issues, religious leaders from various faiths and scholars joined to explore the depths of history, theology and politics.
Thomas Schirrmacher, Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF), testified in the British House of Lords in a meeting between Parliamentarians from the UK and from all over Latin America.
The Associate Secretary General of World Evangelical Alliance, being among other things responsible for interreligious dialogue of this network of 600 million Protestants, calls upon top religious leaders worldwide to sign the UNHCHR’s “Beirut Declaration on ‘Faith for Rights’ (FAR)” and to help to fulfill UN’s Rabat Plan of Action.
60th General Conference of Military Chaplains on the Topic of “Violence within Religions” (Berlin, 24.10.2015) This General Conference held by all Catholic military and chaplains with representatives from many other European countries took place Berlin-Steglitz and […]
At the moment, Among the cheapest and most promising ways to defame those who think differently is to throw them into the same pot as ISIS and Islamist terrorism. While it has almost become normal […]
Focus magazine reports on the civil war in Iraq – as many other forms of media have: “Everywhere in the city there are posters hanging which order families to give up their unmarried daughters – for […]
(Bonn, 10.12.2013) In vielen Ländern werden Frauen geschlagen und ausgebeutet. Seit Jahrhunderten sind sie Opfer von Gewalt und Unterdrückung, bis hin zu Menschenhandel, Vergewaltigung und Genitalverstümmelung. Der Schutz und die Rechte von Frauen sind global […]