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Tag: Pope Francis

  • This photo was taken during the very moment the Pope spoke the sections quoted above © Thomas Schirrmacher

    Pope calls upon WCC to return to emphasizing evangelism

    During his visit to the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva on the occasion of its 70th anniversary, Pope Francis, along with many kind words, urged the WCC to once again prioritize the task of evangelism and mission.

    27. August 2019 / Special topics Mission, Evangelicals, Catholic Church, World Council of Churches, ProMundis Blog

     
  • The Bishops Howell and Schirrmacher handing over the two books by the Global Christian Forum to Pope Francis © Osservatore Romano 242459_27062018.jpg

    Howell and Schirrmacher hand Pope Francis four books and reports

    Richard Howell and Thomas Schirrmacher hand Pope Francis reports on persecution in India, by the Global Christian Forum and by the World Evangelical Alliance

    7. September 2018 / Persecution of Christians, Special topics ecumenical relations, Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog

     
  • 70 years WCC: “Something is starting to move”

    70 years WCC: “Something is starting to move”

    70 years ago, on August 23, 1948, the World Council of Churches (WCC) was founded. The theologian Thomas Schirrmacher talks about the history of the “World Council of Churches”, why Catholics are not members – and why he sees a missionary departure also in Germany.

    31. August 2018 / Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog

     
  • Selfie with the Pope when he received the yearbooks © BQ / Warnecke

    Yearbooks on Religious Freedom for two Popes

    As every year, the Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom and International President of the International Society for Human Rights presented the two German Yearbooks on Religious Freedom (Jahrbuch Religionsfreiheit 2017) and the Yearbook on the Persecution and Discrimination of Christians (Jahrbuch Verfolgung und Diskriminierung von Christen 2017) to Pope Francis personally.

    19. December 2017 / Persecution of Christians, Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog

     
  • Christof Sauer speaking at a congress on the persecution of Christians © Arnold, Dettingen

    Role Models of Faith: Freely Offering their Lives out of Christian Love

    According to the opinion of the evangelical theologian and mission scholar Christof Sauer, the new Apostolic Letter of Pope St. Francis with the title “There is no greater love (maiorem hac dilectionem) – on the offer of life” is to be welcomed, as far as it concerns the definition of a martyr.

    16. October 2017 / Persecution of Christians, Special topics Mission, Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog

     
  • Assembly of Delegates of the Swiss Evangelical Alliance on the Catholic Church

    Assembly of Delegates of the Swiss Evangelical Alliance on the Catholic Church

    Changes in the Catholic Church are encouraging Evangelicals to cooperate with it. The Swiss Evangelical Alliance (SEA) has been working in Bern on a sensational working paper.

    8. August 2017 / Special topics theology, Evangelicals, Catholic Church, Ecumenism, ProMundis Blog, Theology

     
  • Interview at the Close of the Vatican Synod with the Austrian Evangelical Alliance (2015)

    Interview at the Close of the Vatican Synod with the Austrian Evangelical Alliance (2015)

    INTERVIEW This interview was published by the Austrian Evangelical Alliance after the Bishops Synod on Marriage and Family in the Vatican in 2015.

    31. March 2017 / Articles, Marriage & Family, Special topics ecumenical relations, Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog

     
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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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