Schirrmacher met Paul Gibbard and Matthew S. M. Lee in Rome
Thomas Schirrmacher discusses specific religious freedom issues with representatives of Canada and Taiwan in Rome
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Protestant theologian and scholar of sociology of religion Thomas Schirrmacher (60) will be inaugurated on Saturday as the new Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), the representative body of evangelical Christians worldwide. He is the first German to hold this office.
In addition to the German and English versions, an Italian translation has now been published. The English version remains binding in terms of content.
SPEECH Thomas Schirrmacher addressed the global dialogue of Evangelical Charismatic and Catholic Charismatic Christians with the speech „Catholics and Evangelicals and their Future together“.
The national Conferences of Bishops of the Catholic Church worldwide met at the Vatican in February 2019 for a summit on sexual abuse. Time to look back a year later, as much has happened in some countries, but there is no real progress on the global level.
A year ago in April 2019, Pope Benedict published a letter intended to explain how the abuse scandal within the Catholic Church came about – A commentary by Thomas Schirrmacher
MBS TEXTE 116 28 Theses regarding the trial of Galileo Galilei (Updated and enlarged version 2012)
The World Evangelical Alliance and the Roman Catholic Church have jointly released a ground-breaking statement—based on six years of dialogue—which, while acknowledging continuing areas of theological divergence, also calls it “imperative” for Evangelicals and Catholics to work together in addressing the spiritual needs of an increasingly secularized and polarized world.