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Tag: Religious Freedom

  • Thomas Schirrmacher with the board of the Lutheran Covent © BQ/Warnecke

    Schirrmacher: Christians easily become victims

    Freedom of religion is a fundamental human right. Where it is violated, other human rights are also in a bad state. This view was proposed by Thomas Schirrmacher (Bonn), Associate Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, on November 1st in Wuppertal.

    26. November 2018 / Persecution of Christians, Special topics Society, ProMundis Blog, Religious Freedom

     
  • Speech to 40.000 participants of the Ahmadiyya Jalsa Salana in Karlsruhe just before the lecture of their spiritual leader, Kalif Mirza Masrur Ahmad © BQ/Warnecke

    Schirrmacher thanks 40.000 Ahmadiyyas for the Engagement for Religious Freedom

    The president of the International Council of the ISHR and Director of the IIRF, Professor Thomas Schirrmacher, thanked the 40.000 participants of the Ahmadiyya Jalsa Salana in Karlsruhe for not only enjoying religious freedom in Germany after having fled death threats in Pakistan, but in turn loud and insisting called for religious freedom and against any violence or compulsion in religion.

    11. October 2018 / ProMundis Blog, Religious Freedom

     
  • Ahmed Shaheed and Thomas Schirrmacher in discussion © BQ/Warnecke

    Religion: Cause or cure for inequalities in society?

    Discussion at Global Media Forum 2018 with Prof. James D. Bindenagel, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed and Prof. Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Thomas Schirrmacher

    10. August 2018 / Special topics human rights, Special topics politics, Special topics religions, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religion & State, Religious Freedom

     
  • My article „Mission Respekt“ in the magazine of the Protestant Association of Germany

    My article „Mission Respekt“ in the magazine of the Protestant Association of Germany

    My article on „Christian Witness in a multi-religious World“ (2011) in the magazine of the Protestant Association of Germany (Evangelischer Bund) is currently only available in German.

    27. June 2018 / Special topics Mission, Special topics ecumenical relations, Special topics theology, Catholic Church, ProMundis Blog, Protestant Churches

     
  • (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

     
  • (from left) Heiner Bielefeldt, Markus Grübel, Christof Sauer, Hermann Gröhe, Thomas Schirrmacher, Manuel Lösel © Martin Warnecke/IIRF

    Religious Freedom is a Human Right

    A professorship dedicated to the topic of “religious freedom and research on persecution of Christians” is a novelty in German speaking areas. At the inauguration special emphasis was placed on the universality of the human right to freedom of religion or belief and its positive implications.

    22. June 2018 / Christianity & Politics, Special topics politics, Special topics theology, 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

     
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About me

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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