IIRF

The "International Institute for Religious Freedom" (IIRF) is a network of professors, researchers, academics and specialists from all continents, which work on reliable data on the violation of religious freedom worldwide and are interested in adding this topic to college and university programmes, especially in the areas of law, sociology, religious studies and theological programmes.

Task

While numerous other organizations such as human rights groups, mission boards and the Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) of the World Evangelical Alliance plus several active RLCs of regional and national alliances provide relevant information and prayer requests or assist on the scene, this institute aims to work on a long-term basis and to insure that comprehensive studies are carried out and made available. Rather than duplicating existing projects, the International Institute for Religious Freedom intends to organize new projects or make information on existing projects more available. Our fields include:

the publication of long-term, citable literature (such as books, annuals, journals and legal documentations);
Suggestions for teaching and study at Christian universities, seminaries and Bible colleges all over the world;
Groundwork studies into the legal aspects (such as official legal background in various nations, historical studies, certification of court cases);
Theological studies (for example, the ethics of human rights, theology of persecution, the history of persecution);
Introduction of such subjects into theological training (in literature, seminars, courses of study, networking between seminaries, direction of academic papers such as dissertations)
Long-term: an international archive or a network of existing archives.

Organization

Except for publications, the Institute will operate by employing already existing possibilities such as offices, i. e. without a building of our own. Meetings are to be kept at a minimum, depending on the internet possibilities of instructors at institutions of higher education.

Board of Supervisors

The board of supervisors consists of four people delegated by four evangelical bodies:

Chairman: Dr. Paul Murdoch (on behalf of the German Evangelical Alliance)
Julia Doxat-Purser (on behalf of the European Evangelical Alliance)
John Langlois (on behalf of the World Evangelical Alliance)
Albrecht Hauser (on behalf of the Lausanne Movement)

Godfrey Yogarajah (Sri Lanka), Internationalen Director of the Religious Liberty Commission, is by power of his office member of the board of advisors.
The Cape Town branch has its own African board.