Archbishop of Pakistan in Lahore and Washington
Meeting with Protestant church leaders of Pakistan in Lahore and Washington
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Thomas Schirrmacher thanks the Grand Mufti of Lahore
The Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), Thomas Schirrmacher, and the WEA’s specialist in questions relating to Islam, Christine Schirrmacher, have visited the Grand Mufti of Lahore, Maulana Abdul Khabir Azad. There are up to 100,000 people who pray on Fridays in the Badschahi Mosque under his purview.
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Human Trafficking Experts visit Brick Factory Slaves in Lahore
The President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) and author of the book ‘Human Trafficking’ has sought out brick factories near Lahore, Pakistan where slaves working under the most degrading conditions are producing bricks.
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“Support and encourage your wives and daughters to learn and take over responsibilities”
Thomas and Christine Schirrmacher, both professors serving the World Evangelical Alliance, lectured at The Full Gospel Assemblies Bible College, Lahore, founded in 1967. They praised the school for giving female students such a prominent place in a country, in which women suffer from being second class citizens, that often do not count.
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Meeting the Great Imam of Lahore
Thomas Schirrmacher thanking the Great Imam of Lahore, Syed Muhammad Abdul Khabir Azad, leading the second largest mosque in the world with up to 100.000 visitors on Fridays, that he several times stoped a mob, that want to burn Christian quarters
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World Evangelical Alliance congratulates World Council of Churches on Pakistan hearing
(Bonn, 10.12.2012) The participants of a World Council of Churches (WCC) sponsored hearing on the misuse of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws have urged the Pakistani government to “take realistic and solid steps to stop abuse of the […]
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350,000 Christians also endangered – the Death Penalty for Blasphemy in Kuwait
Even though it was published in my German already in 2012, I here offer an English translation of a comment relating to blasphemy – in the light of the terroristic attack in Paris. Secretly and […]
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World Evangelical Alliance grieves senseless murder of Minister Shahbaz Bhatti
Schon wieder verliere ich einen Freund, der gegen die Verfolgung religiöser Minderheiten angekämpft hat, durch eben diese Verfolgung! Ich hätte ihn Ende März getroffen, so muss ich auf die Ewigkeit bei Gott warten. Unsere englische Meldung als Weltweite Evangelische Allianz findet sich in der englischen Fassung dieses Beitrags. In tiefer Trauer stimme ich dem Auslandsbischof der EKD zu: