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Sweet Maple - Cafe of Cultures in the United States of America 17.12.2023

Sweet Maple - Cafe of Cultures in the United States of America

How do you describe a topic that has occupied you for years? Based on my view of humanity, I simply see people as people, regardless of skin color, culture, religion or sexual orientation...

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NEVER AGAIN - THE HATE MUST END 17.12.2023

NEVER AGAIN - THE HATE MUST END

Hate must give way... Common ground is the path to unity and peace.

The Middle East conflict affects many people. Jews, Muslims, Christians and even people with no religious affiliation. Many often no longer know ...

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Hybrid warfare - Ukraine: 13.10.2023

Hybrid warfare - Ukraine: "A threat to democracy"

Hybrid warfare - as a combination of modern conflict scenarios, traditional military operations, economic pressure, cyber-attacks and, especially in the case of Russia's current attack in Ukraine, in violation of international law and dominated by misleading propaganda - is confusing many people

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An Interview with Mr. Roshan Cordeiro - The Priest of the Mersin St. Antoine Catholic Church

An Interview with Mr. Roshan Cordeiro - The Priest of the Mersin St. Antoine Catholic Church

I am writing this to honor everyone who was deported and lost their lives in 1915. I wished to write for a long time about this dramatic family history. Then later on, at the Central Council of Oriental Christians in Germany, of which I am a board member, ...

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Mishel Tarek el Dunya: The extraordinary story from a survivor of 1915

Mishel Tarek el Dunya: The extraordinary story from a survivor of 1915

I am writing this to honor everyone who was deported and lost their lives in 1915. I wished to write for a long time about this dramatic family history. Then later on, at the Central Council of Oriental Christians in Germany, of which I am a board member, ...

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Mishel Tarek el Dunya: The extraordinary story from a survivor of 1915 - An interview with Ferit Johannes Tekbas

Mishel Tarek el Dunya: The extraordinary story from a survivor of 1915 - An interview with Ferit Johannes Tekbas

Ferit Tekbas has been a member of the ZOCD board for many years. He was born in Turkey and grew up with his grandmother in Samandag, a municipality in Hatay province, up to the age of 14, when he moved to Germany in 1980. As one of the oldest families in Samandag, his family comes with a long but

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Afzal - Peacemaker from Pakistan 28.01.2022

Afzal - Peacemaker from Pakistan

After an incident in Pakistan in 2021, shortly before Christmas, where a Srilankan Christian died, Afzal made his way to a Pakistani-Christian church to talk to a priest about the events that had touched him so deeply...

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Christians between the fronts in Turkey 17.04.2021

Christians between the fronts in Turkey

Clergy of St. Jacob's Monastery in Tur Abdin / Southeast Turkey sentenced to two years and one month imprisonment...

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Armenia – collective trauma, diaspora and a lost war 22.03.2021

Armenia – collective trauma, diaspora and a lost war

The Schneller magazine has devoted 24 pages to the topic of Armenia. No other focus before has been given so much space...

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War in the media - Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict driven by hatred and atrocities 11.03.2021

War in the media - Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict driven by hatred and atrocities

Related to the borderline conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, with the territory known as " Nagorno Karabakh" as the central point of conflict, which was historically settled by Armenians, also a digital conflict manifested itself in...

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The Pope’s visit to Kurdistan 08.03.2021

The Pope’s visit to Kurdistan

The Pope travelled to Iraq and the Autonomous Region Kurdistan in the north of the country visiting Baghdad, Mosul and the Kurdish capital Erbil amongst others...

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Quo vadis, Libanon?

Quo vadis, Libanon?

The beautiful country of Lebanon is experiencing a multiple crisis of historic proportions. For this, we have dedicated the latest issue of Schneller Magazine to the people in Lebanon. As we think, that...

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Freedom of Religion - Bahai, House of Worship and the Spaghetti God

Freedom of Religion - Bahai, House of Worship and the Spaghetti God

The First Amendment, part of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America, was passed by the Congress in 1791 and primarily contains the following fundamental rights...

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War in the country, war in the world

War in the country, war in the world

It was the first years of the past decade... when Ahmet Davutoglu became foreign minister there were signs that Turkey was moving closer to the principles of the rule of law. His statements and comments attracted the attention of the media. At the beginning of his...<

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Hagia Sophia - Reconciliation or division?

Hagia Sophia - Reconciliation or division?

"Holy Wisdom" is the Greek translation for the Byzantine church completed in 532 AD in the former Constantinople, now Istanbul. The dome of the magnificent building with its 33-metre wing span built over four pillars is still considered the largest brick dome in ...  

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Stacheldrahtkerze Juli 2020/1

Stacheldrahtkerze Juli 2020/1

Stacheldrahtkerze – Symbol für weltweit bedrängte und verfolgte Christen - Ausgabe Juli 2020/1

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Stacheldrahtkerze Juni 2020/2

Stacheldrahtkerze Juni 2020/2

Stacheldrahtkerze – Symbol für weltweit bedrängte und verfolgte Christen - Ausgabe Juni 2020/2

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ntv - Dokumentation: IS Rückkehrer – Nachsicht oder Strafe? 15.06.2020

ntv - Dokumentation: IS Rückkehrer – Nachsicht oder Strafe?

Erstaunlich ist die Tatsache, dass sich viele Bürger aus Europa, im Besonderen Konvertiten, dem martialischen Kampf anschlossen. Unter ihnen viele Frauen, teilweise im Teenageralter, die aus den verschiedensten Gründen in den Krieg zogen...

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Stacheldrahtkerze Juni 2020/1

Stacheldrahtkerze Juni 2020/1

Stacheldrahtkerze – Symbol für weltweit bedrängte und verfolgte Christen - Ausgabe Juni 2020/1

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Digitalisation – Impact on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Populism in Europe

Digitalisation – Impact on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Populism in Europe

Vibeke Moe, research officer and project coordinator at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies, works on these topics. Her areas of research include anti-Semitism, Muslim-Jewish relations and issues related to the historical coexistence between Jews..

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Die Wertegrundlagen des Glaubens bewusst machen und leben! - Vorsitzender des ZOCD tritt für eine offene Debattenkultur ein

Die Wertegrundlagen des Glaubens bewusst machen und leben! - Vorsitzender des ZOCD tritt für eine offene Debattenkultur ein

Herr Gabriel Georgs ist politisch und kirchlich äußerst aktiv, gehört der Syr.-Orthodoxen Kirche an, kam in Deutschland auf die Welt und ist erster Vorsitzender eines Vereins, dem mehrheitlich deutsch–orientalische Christen angehören...

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