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On a recent trip to the Seychelles, World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) Secretary General Bishop Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher met with the island nation’s President speaking about the country’s positive track record on fighting corruption, ensuring freedom of religion and belief and its efforts to protect the environment.
An online conference was held in observance of the United Nations' International Anti-Corruption Day, promoting integrity as a personal character and a church battlefield, through strategies, collaborative efforts as well as personal callings.
The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, James Marape, has invited Schirrmacher to present his new anti-corruption programme.
English translation of the book “Corruption” by David und Thomas Schirrmacher is launched at the Integrity Conference in Manila
Corruption is neither a private problem nor a peccadillo. Corruption can be deadly, for instance if poor quality parts are installed in planes, if development funds for the hungry are diverted for private use, or if the drinking water supply is overpriced due to corruption and as a result the poor can not afford it. Corruption affects everyone, or at least a great many, even if they do not usually immediately notice or know it.
I recently visited Desmond Tutu's former home in Soweto. The 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Horn is, alongside Nelson Mandela, a symbolic figure of dismantling apartheid in his country.
19 years after the establishment of the Global Christian Forum, the representatives of the world Christian community met together in Geneva for a historic meeting to decide on its continuation