“Turkey should be proud of the Ecumenical Patriarchate”
Our IGFM letter on the 25th anniversary of the Patriarch's office
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My Welcoming Address for Saïda Keller-Messahli in Connection with the 2016 Human Rights Award from the Swiss Section of the ISHR
Der Menschenrechtspreis 2016 der Schweizer Sektion der IGFM geht an eine mutige und zugunsten der Menschenrechte bewusst polarisierende Frau, die gewissermaßen in einem der wichtigsten Wespennester der Gegenwart ‚herumstochert‘.
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Protect Muslims; suppress Islamists
“The secular state must equally guarantee freedom of religion for freedom loving Muslims and use its monopoly on the use of force to suppress those Islamists who are enemies of freedom of religion.”
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Europe and the USA should combine their Expertise in the Battle against Human Trafficking
The President of the International Society for Human Rights at the Atlantic Academy in Kaiserslautern
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The 2016 Yearbook on Religious Freedom and the 2016 Yearbook on Christian Persecution and Discrimination are available in advance for download free of charge
The 2016 Yearbook on Religious Freedom contains articles by Angela Merkel, Volker Kauder, Annette Schawan, and Heiner Bielefeldt as well as articles by Alevites, Yazidis, and Baha’i. The 2016 Yearbook on Christian Persecution and Discrimination goes into the question of religious minorities in refugee shelters and deals in particular with China, Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, and Turkey.
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Worldwide Evangelical Alliance informs itself about Conversation between Pope and Russian Patriarch
The Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom and Moderator for Ecumenical Relations of the World Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Schirrmacher, together with the Secretary General of the Asian Evangelical Alliance, Dr Richard Howell (New Delhi), informed themselves personally in the Department for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church about the results of the conversation between the Pope and the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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The International President of the ISHR congratulates the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs on being awarded the International Democracy Prize
Der Präsident des Internationalen Rates der IGFM, Prof. Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher, hat der Hohen Vertreterin der Europäischen Union für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, Federica Mogherini, zur Verleihung des Internationalen Demokratiepreises Bonn im Alten Rathaus der Stadt Bonn gratuliert.
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“I am honored to represent thousands of human rights activists worldwide.”
Statement on Re-election as President of the International Council by the Sections of the ISHR for the period 2016–2020