Anti-Christian bias growing in Europe, Vatican delegate tells OSCE
May 20, 2015
“Christians are the religious group most persecuted and discriminated against on the global level,” Msgr. Janusz Urbanczyk, the Vatican’s representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), observed in his remarks to an OSCE meeting on May 18.
Msgr. Urbanczyk told the meeting—which was devoted to intolerance against Christians—that although the most grievous persecution of Christians has been taking place in the Middle East, there have been troubling signs of anti-Christian in Europe as well. He said that “legal trends in Europe reveal an ever-spreading distrust towards religion, religious institutions and their public role.” The Vatican envoy continued:
Particularly worrisome is the fact that across the OSCE region a sharp dividing line has been drawn between religious belief and religious practice, so that Christians are frequently reminded in public discourse or even in the courts, that they can believe whatever they like in private, and worship as they wish in their own churches, but they simply cannot act on those beliefs in public.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
May. 21, 2015 4:05 PM ET USA
Let's check the tally. You can't own a bakery, flowershop, bed and breakfast, arts and crafts business in the U.S. if you are Catholic. You can't operate a hospital, adoption agency, or crisis pregnancy center in the U.S. if you are Catholic. You had better be careful if you stand for Catholic orthodoxy in a Catholic school because you may lose your job. Any more outrages being perpetrated in the land of the free?
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Posted by: jplaunder1846 -
May. 20, 2015 8:31 PM ET USA
It is not only in Europe. There is a growing intolerance amongst the 'chattering class' and atheistic secularists in Australia along the same lines. One of the 'reasons' is the salivating news reports on 'child sex abuse' by the Church. I in no way condone the way some older Bishops failed in their duty to accept that there were criminals in the clergy and failed to see the harm their actions brought upon children. However one feels the constant 'replays' of the crimes of a few is beat up
