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On December 9, 2020, the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) and the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) presented the 2020 Yearbooks “Religious Freedom” and “Persecution and Discrimination against Christians” at a Video press conference.
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.
Christine Schirrmacher gave a guest lecture for the professors of the faculty of the Asian Institute of the University of Melbourne. The National Centre for Contemporary Islamic Studies (NCCIS), chaired by Professor Abdullah Saeed, is part of the Asian Institute.
Thomas Schirrmacher, Associate Secretary General for Theological Concerns of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), met the Grand Mufti of Kazakhstan, Serikbay Oraz, during a conference in Baku to prepare his subsequent short visit to Nur-Sultan in Kazakhstan.
The Co-Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF), Prof. Dr. Christof Sauer, has updated his suggestions for an appropriate use of the World Watch List on the occasion of the release of the Index.
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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 Regent’s Park College of Oxford University, the International Institute for Research and Legal Studies on Fundamental Civil Liberties, ANAJURE, and the IIRF have jointly launched the Institute for the History of Religious Freedom (IHRF) based in Oxford.