Essays/

Sortieren nach:
  • von Jan Carsten Schnurr

    Am 16. Juli 1974 stand der amerikanische Baptisten-Pastor und Evangelist Billy Graham (1918–2018) vor knapp zweieinhalbtausend Delegierten und über tausend weiteren Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörern aus 150 Ländern und hielt die am aufwändigsten vorbereitete Rede seines Lebens. Es handelte sich um den Eröffnungsvortrag des Internationalen Kongresses für Weltevangelisation im schweizerischen Lausanne. „Why Lausanne?“ hieß Grahams Vortrag.

  • von Jay Winter

    The General Assembly of the United Nations approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. This document reflected a very widely shared sense of revulsion at the crimes committed by the Hitler state in its period in power from 1933-45. Without the Second World War, this document would never have been drafted, let alone approved by communist and non-communist countries alike. This non-binding statement of principles set in motion other measures which established legal sanctions for human rights violations by states. Regional conventions on human rights were signed in Europe, Latin America and Africa. In 1966, the United Nations agreed two covenants on human rights, one on social and economic rights and a second on civil and political rights. Ten years later these came into force as instruments of international law. [...]