This volume consists of twenty-six articles, organised into six sections, of which twenty are written in German and six in English. The sections grew out of the theme of a conference, the aim of which was to discuss different aspects of cultural encounters between Oriental Christians and Europe in different time periods. In the section ‘Rezeption’, three articles deal with earlier periods and the article which I particularly enjoyed reading was ‘Is Christianity from Arabia?’ (Najeeb G. Awad). In the section ‘Mission’ two articles testify that missionaries were witness to the genocide of the Christians in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War: ‘Die Liebesarbeit an den Nestorianern in Kurdistan: Evangelische Wahrnehmungen eines alten Zweiges des orientalischen Christentums zu Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts' (K. Pinggéra) and ‘Interferenz zwischen Humanität un Genozid: der Disput zwischen Johannes Lepsius und Evenver Pascha, Konstantinopel, 10. August 1915’ (H. Goltz). In ‘Interaction’, two more articles deal with the genocide but more from the perspective of German involvement in the war: ‘Vor den letzten Spuren eines untergegangenen Volkes: Armin T. Wegners Kriegstagebuch vom 23. September bis 31 Oktober 1916’ (M. Tamcke and S. Grebenstein), and ‘Armin T. Wegner's WWI media testimonies and the Armenian genocide’ (T. Sarukhanyan). The three other articles in this section focus on intellectual activities resulting from interactions between Eastern and Western Christians. ‘Exploration’ deals with new questions and thus new perspectives about ancient religious texts. The articles in ‘Koexistenz’ describe the kind of life which emerges when different religious or ethnic groups live together. In the article ‘Fortsetzung religiöser Koexistenstrukturen auf deutschem Boden? Orientalische Christen inder Literatur, muslimisher Migranten in Deutchland’, M. Tamcke looks at Christian-Muslim relations in modern Germany, after Christian and Muslim immigrants settled in the country. The last section, ‘Stephanus-Preis’, includes the talk by the Chaldean archbishop of Kirkuk, Louis Sako, in recognition of his ‘exemplary behavior and his steadfastness as a Christian in distress’. In his talk Sako stresses the importance of peace for coexistence between religions and expresses his determination to work for the creation of a culture of dialogue. M. Tamcke, in the final article of this volume, speaks to the endangered position of Christians in the Middle East.