In preparing the 60-page report, OIDAC focused on the 5 countries in Europe with the most social problems and conflicts affecting the rights and freedoms of Christians, namely: Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. This phenomenon can occur in various forms, such as vandalism antireligious motivated attacks against churches and Christian buildings or even anti-Christian hate crimes against individuals, said OIDACs director Madeleine Enzlberger.Įnzlberger noted that the phenomenon also manifests itself in the progressive restriction of fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, contractual freedom, and parental rights. A man armed with a knife fatally attacked people in the church, located in the heart of the city. People pay tribute at night in front of Notre Dame Basilica on Octoin Nice, France. While secular intolerance is the driving dynamic in most of the cases and areas of life we observed, Islamic oppression mainly occurs in concentrated hotspot areas, in which Christian converts are the group that is mostly affected along with other residential Christians, the report states. The group found that the two chief threatening dynamics adversely affecting the lives of Europes Christians were secular intolerance and Islamic oppression. The report shows a multitude of incidents and examples of hate crimes as vandalism of churches and other threats to religious freedom in five European countries where it identified the most severe challenges for Christians.
OIDACs Top 5 Report 2019/2020, the product of two years of research, was issued to mark the International Day of Human Rights celebrated on December 10.
The Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance against Christians in Europe (OIDAC) revealed that hate crimes targeting Christians in Europe rose by a startling 70 percent between 20, with the highest frequency occurring in France and Germany. ROME A Christian persecution watchdog group released a major report this week chronicling a disturbing spike in anti-Christian hate crimes in Europe.
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