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Group says discrimination against Christians on the rise in Europe  

 

"My children, please, as your Mother I ask you in all charity to go forward and warn your brothers and sisters to prepare for great persecution. There will be many catastrophes now befalling your earth until the great Warning, and then the final Chastisement. O My children, will you not listen to Me!” – Our Lady of the Roses, November 20, 1978

VIENNA, December 17, 2010 (C-Fam) - The murder of a Catholic bishop in Turkey, 100,000 Euro fines, and exclusion from public office are just a few of the acts of discrimination and intolerance against Christians in Europe. 

A Viennese group just published a report, which cites dozens of cases of intolerance and discrimination against Christians, and makes various corrective recommendations to European governments and the European Union.   

The report identifies discrimination as interference with a person’s fundamental rights to freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, and freedom of religion.  Intolerance is defined as instances where Christians or expressions of Christianity are marginalized, especially in public life.

The report tells the story of the head of the Catholic bishops in Turkey, Luigi Padovese, who was fatally stabbed in his home by his driver.  The Spanish government fined a broadcaster 100,000 Euros for running a series of advertisements that favored the family and opposed homosexual lifestyles, And Italian politician Rocco Buttiglione had his nomination to be an EU Commissioner withdrawn because of attacks against his Catholic beliefs about homosexuality.

The report says where discrimination is concerned laws must be created that respect freedom of religion, expression, and conscience. Where legal discrimination against Christians already exists, the group calls for the legal preservation of fundamental rights. 

The report states: “We do not view the law as being a tool of education for the ill mannered to become gentlemen.” Instead of asking for specialized rights to become the letter of the law, the report calls for soft political measures like awareness campaigns to expose the phenomenon, and fair treatment by the media. 

The report recommends to the European governments that they show full respect for fundamental freedoms, recognition and condemnation of intolerance and discrimination against Christians to ensure their full participation in public life, and official monitoring and data collection to ensure official awareness.  The European Union is advised to take similar measures and be sure to respect the autonomy of churches as defined in the Lisbon Treaty. 

During his recent visit to the United Kingdom, Pope Benedict XVI identified anti-Christian discrimination as a serious issue for Europe. “I cannot but voice my concern at the increasing marginalization of religion, particularly of Christianity, that is taking place in some quarters, even in nations which place a great emphasis on tolerance.  There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere,” he said.

The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians published the five-year report as a step towards a solution to the growing phenomenon. 

Over 200 cases are recorded in the full report and on the Observatory’s website.

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Prophetic warnings of Pope John Paul II:

The Tyrant State

 

 

"Once a country has given itself over to all manner of paganism and sin, it is not long before that country falls into a system of dictatorship, bringing great sorrow, even murder to the masses." - Jesus, May 26, 1979

The following excerpt is from Pope John Paul II's encyclical, The Gospel of Life:

There is an even more profound aspect which needs to be emphasized: freedom negates and destroys itself, and becomes a factor leading to the destruction of others, when it no longer recognizes and respects its essential link with the truth. When freedom, out of a desire to emancipate itself from all forms of tradition and authority, shuts out even the most obvious evidence of an objective and universal truth, which is the foundation of personal and social life, then the person ends up by no longer taking as the sole and indisputable point of reference for his own choices the truth about good and evil, but only his subjective and changeable opinion or, indeed, his selfish interest and whim.

This view of freedom leads to a serious distortion of life in society. If the promotion of the self is understood in terms of absolute autonomy, people inevitably reach the point of rejecting one another. Everyone else is considered an enemy from whom one has to defend oneself. Thus society becomes a mass of individuals placed side by side, but without any mutual bonds. Each one wishes to assert himself independently of the other and in fact intends to make his own interests prevail. Still, in the face of other people's analogous interests, some kind of compromise must be found, if one wants a society in which the maximum possible freedom is guaranteed to each individual. In this way, any reference to common values and to a truth absolutely binding on everyone is lost, and social life ventures on to the shifting sands of complete relativism. At that point, everything is negotiable, everything is open to bargaining: even the first of the fundamental rights, the right to life.

This is what is happening also at the level of politics and government: the original and inalienable right to life is questioned or denied on the basis of a parliamentary vote or the will of one part of the peopleeven if it is the majority. This is the sinister result of a relativism which reigns unopposed: the "right" ceases to be such, because it is no longer firmly founded on the inviolable dignity of the person, but is made subject to the will of the stronger part. In this way democracy, contradicting its own principles, effectively moves towards a form of totalitarianism. The State is no longer the "common home" where all can live together on the basis of principles of fundamental equality, but is transformed into a tyrant State, which arrogates to itself the right to dispose of the life of the weakest and most defenseless members, from the unborn child to the elderly, in the name of a public interest which is really nothing but the interest of one part. The appearance of the strictest respect for legality is maintained, at least when the laws permitting abortion and euthanasia are the result of a ballot in accordance with what are generally seen as the rules of democracy. Really, what we have here is only the tragic caricature of legality; the democratic ideal, which is only truly such when it acknowledges and safeguards the dignity of every human person, is betrayed in its very foundations: "How is it still possible to speak of the dignity of every human person when the killing of the weakest and most innocent is permitted? In the name of what justice is the most unjust of discriminations practiced: some individuals are held to be deserving of defense and others are denied that dignity?" When this happens, the process leading to the breakdown of a genuinely human co-existence and the disintegration of the State itself has already begun.

To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom: "Truly, truly, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a slave to sin" (Jn 8:34).
 

- Pope John Paul II, The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae), #19-20, March 25, 1995.

 

"Learn a simple lesson from the past, My children. When the morals of a country start to go down into darkness, and the teachings turn from God to man, that country will soon be ended. First the spiritual life and then the material life of your country shall be destroyed." - Jesus, October 2, l976

"A country is known by the moral values, My children. In the history of your world, if you consult and look, My children, you will find that your country and many in your world are now proceeding along the same course taken before the fall of an empire!" - Our Lady of the Roses, February 10, 1976
 

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