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  • The Professors Sauer, Bielefeldt and Schirrmacher at the Congress “Christenverfolgung” (“Persecution of Christians”) in Schwäbisch Gmünd, 2013 © BQ / Vogt

    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.

    2. February 2018 / Persecution of Christians, Special topics ecumenical relations, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom

     
  • Selfie with the Pope when he received the yearbooks © BQ / Warnecke

    Yearbooks on Religious Freedom for two Popes

    As every year, the Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom and International President of the International Society for Human Rights presented the two German Yearbooks on Religious Freedom (Jahrbuch Religionsfreiheit 2017) and the Yearbook on the Persecution and Discrimination of Christians (Jahrbuch Verfolgung und Diskriminierung von Christen 2017) to Pope Francis personally.

    19. December 2017 / Persecution of Christians, Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog

     
  • Schirrmacher lecturing at Oxford University © BQ / Warnecke

    IIRF director gives guest lecture on religious freedom at Oxford University

    The director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) has given a guest lecture on the philosophy of religious freedom at Oxford University. He urged the academic community to make “FoRB” (Freedom of Religion and Belief) an important topic in several academic disciplines, like law, sociology, history, and religious studies.

    30. October 2017 / Special topics sociology, Church History, University, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom

     
  • (from right) Quintão, Baroness Berridge (speaking), Schirrmacher © BQ / Warnecke

    Schirrmacher testifies in British parliament

    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.

    20. October 2017 / Christianity & Politics, Dialogue with other religions, Special topics politics, Special topics religions, Islam, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religion & State, Religious Freedom

     
  • Christof Sauer speaking at a congress on the persecution of Christians © Arnold, Dettingen

    Role Models of Faith: Freely Offering their Lives out of Christian Love

    According to the opinion of the evangelical theologian and mission scholar Christof Sauer, the new Apostolic Letter of Pope St. Francis with the title “There is no greater love (maiorem hac dilectionem) – on the offer of life” is to be welcomed, as far as it concerns the definition of a martyr.

    16. October 2017 / Persecution of Christians, Special topics Mission, Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog

     
  • CISG and IIRF as partners – entrance of Global Media Forum © BQ / Schirrmacher

    Does social media help promote extremism and populism?

    As support for extremist ideologies and populism becomes more visible worldwide, media and social networks face increasing criticism. But experts say this is just an easy excuse that covers up more complex social issues.

    14. July 2017 / Special topics Society, Special topics sociology, Islam, ProMundis Blog

     
  • UN Police Adviser addresses German MPs and Director of IIRF

    (Bonn, 13.05.2016) Stefan Feller, UN Police Adviser and Director, United Nations, addressed several Members of the German Parliament and the Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom about efforts to rebuilt just police structures in […]

    28. September 2016 / Special topics human rights, EU-parliament, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom

     
  • Cover In den Mitgliedsstaaten der Organisation Islamischer Kooperation (OIC) leben 300 Millionen Christen

    The member States of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have 300 million Christian citizens

    COMMENTARY A Commentary based on a table of member countries of the OIC and the religion of their citizens – a statistical research project of the International Institute of Religious Freedom (2013, translated 2016).

    20. September 2016 / Articles, Human Rights, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religions, Religious Freedom

     
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About me

About meArchbishop and Professor Thomas Paul Schirrmacher, Dr. theol., Dr. phil., PhD, ThD, DD, DHL (born 1960) is Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, which connects Protestant churches belonging to 143 National Evangelical Alliances with a total of 600 million members. Read more …

 
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