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["Christian B. Schäffler (APD Schweiz)" <APD@stanet.ch>]

> Title: Pierre Lanares, Champion of Religious Liberty, died aged 92
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CORRECTION: Due to text conversion the french letter "e" (name: Lanares) has
been printed out as "h" (name: Lanarhs)

> February, 20, 2004
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> Pierre Lanares, Champion of Religious Liberty, died aged 92
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> Berne/Switzerland (APD)  Pierre Lanares, a jurist and
> champion of religious liberty, died in Clapiers, southern
> France, on  February 2, 2004, aged 92. Born in Madagascar
> in 1912, he worked for more than 44 years in different
> positions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church: in
> Madagascar, France and Switzerland. Pierre Lanares
> studied Law in Paris, got his Ph.D  in Geneva, and
> graduated from the Seventh-day Adventist Theological
> Faculty at Collonges-sous-Saleve, France. He worked as
> a pastor, school principal, church leader, writer,
> producer of radio and TV programs and at the Euro-Africa
> Division of the Seventh-day Adventists, the European
> headquarters of this protestant free church in Berne.
> He was in charge of the following departments: Radio
> and Television, Education, Ministerial Association,
> Public Affairs and Religious Liberty.
>
> From 1966 through 1982, Lanares also acted as General
> Secretary of the International Association for the
> Defense of Religious Liberty (AIDRL), an NGO with
> headquarters in Berne. His interventions on behalf
> of religious liberty took him to many European
> countries, in Africa, the Middle East and the United
> States. Besides the many contacts with important
> political and religious personalities, the
> organization of conventions, symposiums and meetings
> of experts, as well as the publishing and edition of
> the international magazine Conscience et liberte 
> (ISSN 0229-0360), the promotion of religious tolerance
> through education was also part of his assignment. To
> this he dedicated his talents as a lecturer in the
> French-speaking countries and his years spent as a school
> principal in Madagascar and France. Till his retirement,
> he also taught in the Seventh-day Adventist Theological
> Faculty at Collonges-sous-Saleve, Haute-Savoie, in the
> vicinity of Geneva.
>
> As Pastor Ulrich Frikart, the president of the Euro-Africa
> Division of the Seventh-day Adventists (Berne), told
> Adventist Press Service (APD), the world-wide
> interventions on behalf of religious liberty have been,
> for more than 100 years, a regular and important part of
> the policy of his church on behalf of the Human Rights.
> Ulrich Frikart expressed his appreciation for Pierre
> Lanares international contribution, over many years, on
> behalf of liberty of religion and conscience, of the
> separation of Church and State, and for the pedagogical
> merits of his promotion of religious tolerance in a
> Christian perspective.
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