|
Posted by
Orange Blossom Special
on Thu Nov 20 21:05:40 2025
In Europe, not the Africa the left ignores.
--
The number of anti-Christian arson attacks on churches in Germany has surged to a record high amid a “climate of growing intolerance,” a report from the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe) found.
In its annual report published this week, based on data collected from European police forces, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and various civil society groups, OIDAC Europe reported that there were 33 arson attacks against German churches in 2024.
This represented a record high for the country and stood as the most of any country in Europe last year, Die Welt reported.
In August, the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) warned that attacks on churches have been escalating and that “all taboos have now been broken.”
A DBK spokesman said at the time: “For several years now, we have been dealing with an escalating problem: excrement in holy water fonts and confessionals, decapitated statues of Christ and saints, cigarette butts and other litter in front of devotional images, damaged prayer and hymn books, overturned pews, smashed windows, altarpieces and entire altars destroyed by arson.”
Meanwhile, France experienced the most anti-Christian hate crimes of any European country, according to the report, which identified 770 police recorded incidents and a further 139 reported by civil society groups. While this represented a “modest decrease” over the previous year, OIDAC Europe noted that this trend appears to have been short-lived, with 2025 already outpacing last year by 13 per cent.
France, the report said, experienced a “disproportionately high number of incidents with an Islamist background,” including the desecration of a cemetery in southern France, which saw over 50 graves and the church vandalised with slogans such as “Submit to Islam.”
OIDAC director Anja Tang said per Die Welt: “Behind this number are concrete cases of church vandalism, arson, and physical violence that have real consequences for the lives of local communities.”
Tang also noted that there are indications of many more cases that go unreported, saying that a survey of around 1,000 priests in Poland said they had faced anti-Christian aggression over the past year, but less than 20 per cent reported such incidents to the police.
“When half the priests in a predominantly Catholic country experience abuse, hostile attitudes towards Christians can no longer be dismissed as a fringe issue,”
============
Islamist backgrounds. Unreported crimes. Reminds me of a place in the us...
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/11/18/arson-attacks-on-christian-churches-rise-to-record-high-in-germany/
|
