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Leading figures in the world’s largest Muslim organization and the world’s largest Evangelical Christian organization announced today that they are undertaking an ambitious joint effort to reshape how the world thinks about religion and to counter two threats to religious freedom and to society more broadly: religious extremism and secular extremism.
As part of their task in the field of dialogue with Muslim leaders, Christine and Thomas Schirrmacher gave a double guest lecture on “Christian-Muslim Relations in an Age of Political Conflict and Migration” at St Paul’s Theological College in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).
The two scholars of world religions of WEA responsible for the relations with the leaders of other religions visited mosques in Kuwait and the seven Emirates of the UAE.
The Associate Secretary General responsible for the interreligious dialogue of the World Evangelical Alliance has now made his speech at the dialogue conference of the governments of Azerbaijan and Germany in Berlin available.
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.
Immer wieder wird bemängelt, dass sich Christen für diskriminierte und verfolgte Christen einsetzen. Ja, Christen tun das, aber sie setzen sich zugleich auch für die Religionsfreiheit anderer ein. Aber warum kritisiert man denn nicht die […]
(Deutsch) Die John Templeton Foundation, eine der ganz wenigen amerikanischen Großstiftungen, die Forschungsgelder für religiöse Themen vergibt, plant ein neues internationales Großforschungsprojekt zur Religionsfreiheit.