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On May 15, 2021, Bishop Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher, Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, addressed the global dialogue of Evangelical Charismatic and Catholic Charismatic Christians with a speech “Catholics and Evangelicals and their Future together”. Shortly after, Pope Francis spoke at the same event. Now Schirrmacher made the full written version of his speech […]

Listen to the Podcast Audio In this podcast Thomas K. Johnson discusses his new books Humanitarian Islam, Evangelical Christianity, and the Clash of Civilizations, as well as The Protester, the Dissident and the Christian: Essays on Human Rights and Religion. (Free PDF copies have been made available on the Multifaith Matters recommended books page.) Johnson is Senior Theological Advisor to the World

Leaders from the world’s largest independent Muslim organization and the world’s largest Evangelical Christian organization are beginning a joint effort to respond globally to threats to religious freedom coming from religious extremism and secular extremism. They have appointed top-level theologians, human rights theorists, and religious freedom activists from both religions to a Humanitarian Islam/World Evangelical

The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) was represented at the Vatican by Prof. Dr. Thomas K. Johnson at meetings of 25 Jewish, Muslim, and Christian leaders, addressing the issues of religiously motivated conflict and persecution. The meetings were called by the Multi-Faith Neighbors Network and the U.S. State Department Office of International Religious Freedom at the

As part of their task in the field of dialogue with Muslim leaders, WEA Theological Commission leaders Thomas and Christine 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). St Paul’s Theological College is deliberately located on the

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 in German and English. The topic “Does religious freedom, religious harmony, and interreligious dialogue contradict absolute truth claims?” had been set for

Rev. Dr. Casely Essamuah, a Ghanaian-born evangelical pastor and the Secretary-elect of the Global Christian Forum (GCF), challenges his fellow evangelicals to embrace the opportunity to have fellowship with believers of other Christian traditions to strengthen their witness in Christ. In an interview with the World Evangelical Alliance’s (WEA) communications team during the third global

WEA Associate Secretary General for Theological Concerns and Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF), Professor Thomas Schirrmacher, thanked the 40.000 participants of the Ahmadiyya Jalsa Salana in Karlsruhe, the yearly meeting of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Germany for not only enjoying religious freedom in Germany after having fled death threats in

Joint media release with Global Christian Forum New York, NY / Bogotá, Colombia – May 4, 2018 Christians are called to take up together the challenges of peace, unity and costly discipleship the Global Christian Forum has said in a 27 April closing Message to the churches of the world sent from Bogotá, Colombia. The

On the occasion of a meeting of the heads of all major churches and confessions of Turkey at the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul, the Associate Secretary General Bishop Thomas Schirrmacher introduced Dr Nikolay (Nik) Nedelchev personally to Bartholomew I, who as Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch is the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox