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Tag: Persecution of Christians

  • Bishop Schirrmacher addressing the audience © BQ/Warnecke

    Patriarch Aphrem II and Schirrmacher addressed the highest Muslim leaders

    As was announced only now due to security reasons, the Syrian-Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II and the Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, Bishop Thomas Schirrmacher, two days before Christmas 2017 addressed the highest Muslim leaders of 40 countries and called upon them to protect their Christian minorities.

    29. June 2018 / Persecution of Christians, Special topics ecumenical relations, Islam, ProMundis Blog, Religious Freedom

     
  • (from left) Hermann Gröhe, Heiner Bielefeldt, Thomas Schirrmacher © Martin Warnecke/IIRF

    Schirrmacher thanks Hermann Gröhe for the “most momentous rebuke in all my life”

    Thomas Schirrmacher published his speech at the opening of the religious freedom chair at the Gießen School of Theology. In it he thanks Hermann Gröhe for the “most momentous rebuke in all my life”.

    25. June 2018 / German parliament, Christianity & Politics, Persecution of Christians, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom

     
  • Stephanus-Prize for Persecuted Christians awarded to Cardinal Zen

    Stephanus-Prize for Persecuted Christians awarded to Cardinal Zen

    On April 7th, the “Stephanus-Prize for Persecuted Christians” was awarded in Bonn to Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, the former bishop of Hongkong, for his courage and his persistence in decades of strong engagement for the rights of freedom, notably of religious freedom.

    15. June 2018 / Persecution of Christians, Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom

     
  • “It is scandalous, that presently in Germany asylum is denied to nearly all converts from Islam to the Christian faith”

    “It is scandalous, that presently in Germany asylum is denied to nearly all converts from Islam to the Christian faith”

    Whoever was thinking, that the claims of converts from Islam to Christianity of being threatened, whether it be by relatives and by fellow countrymen, or by their home countries are overstated or ostensible, has now once more received evidence, that this is a matter of bitter reality.

    18. May 2018 / Persecution of Christians, Special topics Society, Special topics politics, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom

     
  • Cover The Persecution of Christians Concerns Us All

    The Persecution of Christians Concerns Us All

    “The Persecution of Christians Concerns Us All” is currently the most comprehensive and biblically theological analysis of Christian persecution worldwide.

    29. March 2018 / Books, Persecution of Christians

     
  • Newsletter on persecution Christian endorses our Yearbooks

    Newsletter on persecution Christian endorses our Yearbooks

    The German newsletter on persecution of Christians of the International Society for Human Rights has endorsed your German yearbooks on religious freedom and on the persecution and discrimination of Christians. It also quotes in length from my advocacy for the unguilty improsined former major of Jakarta, „Ahok“.

    12. March 2018 / Persecution of Christians, ProMundis Blog

     
  • 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

     
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Über michProf. Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Thomas Schirrmacher, PhD, DD, (born 1960) is President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights, and Associate Secretary General for Theological Concerns (Theology, Theological Education, Intrafaith and Interfaith Relations, Religious Freedom, Research), which networks churches with appr. 600 million conservative Protestant Christians, chair of its theological commission, and director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (Bonn, Cape Town, Colombo, Brasilia), the largest research network for religious freedom and against persecution of Christians and other religions and world views. Read more …

 

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