Jahrbuch Religionsfreiheit 2025
Studien zur Religionsfreiheit / Studies in Religious Freedom – ISSN 1618-7865, Bd. 44.
Publications
Jahrbuch Verfolgung und Diskriminierung von Christen 2025
Studien zur Religionsfreiheit / Studies in Religious Freedom – ISSN 1618-7865, Bd. 43.
Non-Governmental Actors Violating Religious Freedom in the Southern Cone of the Americas
The report addresses four thematic axes: (1) indigenous communities, (2) organized crime, (3) secularism and ideological groups, and (4) the paradox of confessional or faith-based organizations that, in some cases, have become obstacles to the promotion of religious freedom.
Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Religious Freedom
IIRF Reports Vol. 14—2025/20
Religious Frustration: Terror at a Catholic School
Once again there was a horrendous attack on a Christian school, this time a Roman Catholic school in Minneapolis, during a Mass to celebrate a return to school.
Religious Communities as Good Neighbors in a Post-Secular Global Society
A speech at the Abrahamic Faiths Initiative (AFI), online December 1, 2020, U.S. State Department
Freedom of Religion or Belief in Turkey
Statement by Thomas Schirrmacher at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Hearing on “Freedom of Religion or Belief in Turkey” on August 14, 2025
Nihilism and Depopulation
Is the Solution Money or Meaning?
Global Religious Freedom Index 2024–2026: Post-Communist Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Post-Communist Eastern Europe
This report analyzes the status of religious freedom in 30 post-communist countries and territories in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Religious Persecution
Robert Lilleaasen & Christof Sauer (eds.). Religious Persecution: Perspectives from Theology and Missiology. Christians under Pressure: Studies in Discrimination and Persecution. Vol. 3. Bonn: Culture and Science Publ. (VKW), 2025. 460 pp. ISBN 978-3-86269- 325-2.