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The Institute on Religion & Democracy, Providence Magazine & the Hanns Seidel Foundation co-hosted a discussion with scholar Thomas Schirrmacher about Christian Democratic parties in Europe and German-American collaboration on international religious freedom.
In late November the 3 day “Global Summit on Religion, Peace and Security” was held at the UN in Geneva to address the spread of violent extremism, which manipulates and misuses religion to justify brutal violence against civilians.
ARTICLE Despite much ambivalence in the relationship between Christianity and democracy, there are reasons why determined Christians and minority churches have called for secular democracy, have advanced it, and have helped to stabilize it.