Bonner Querschnitte 56/2017 Ausgabe 517 (eng)

(Bonn, 20.17.2017) As every year, the Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom and International President of the International Society for Human Rights presented the two German Yearbooks on Religious Freedom (Jahrbuch Religionsfreiheit 2017) and the Yearbook on the Persecution and Discrimination of Christians (Jahrbuch Verfolgung und Diskriminierung von Christen 2017) to Pope Francis personally.

Archbishop Georg Gänswein received a copy for himself and for Pope em. Benedict XVI. Bishop Schirrmacher also handed copies to Kurt Cardinal Koch, Peter Cardinal Turkson and the new Prefect of the Congregation of Faith, Archbishop Luis Ladaria.

Pope Francis, who can read German, has now received the yearbooks for the fifth time. Pope Benedict has received the books for years and asked to continue to receive the books after his resignation.

The yearbooks are published by the International Society for Human Rights and the International Institute for Religious Freedom together with the three German speaking Evangelical Alliances of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Downloads and Links:

• Photo 1: Selfie with the Pope when he received the yearbooks © BQ / Warnecke
• Photo 2: Official photo of the Vatican with Bishop Schirrmacher and Pope Francis © L’Osservatore Romano
• Photo 3: Bishop Schirrmacher with the Prefect of the Congregation of Faith, Archbishop Ladaria © BQ / Warnecke
• Photo 4: Interview with Radio Vatican about the yearbooks © BQ / Warnecke
• Cover Yearbook on Persecution and Discrimination of Christians 2017 (jpg)
• Cover Yearbook on Persecution and Discrimination of Christians 2017 (pdf)
• Cover Yearbook on Religious Freedom 2017 (jpg)
• Cover Yearbook on Religious Freedom 2017 (pdf)
• The yearbooks as download: http://iirf.eu/journal-books/german-yearbooks/