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Two Religious Statues Smashed

Two religious statues were deliberately broken inside the Church of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Montcenis, in what authorities are treating as an act of anti-Christian vandalism.

November 6, 2025, France

Parish Grounds and Madonna Grotto Vandalised

A stone grotto was demolished, statues of the Madonna and Padre Pio were desecrated, and church gardens were destroyed in a targeted act of vandalism at the Church of San Francesco in Francofonte.

November 4, 2025, Italy

Church in Loiret vandalised during Halloween

A church in Ouzouer-sous-Bellegarde, Loiret, was vandalised during the night of Halloween, when its door was forced open and the interior damaged, in an incident suggesting deliberate intent

October 31, 2025, France

Bible Set on Fire During Halloween Night

A lectionary was set on fire and the sanctuary vandalised in a Halloween-night attack on a Catholic church in northern Italy.

October 31, 2025, Italy

Päivi Räsänen Faces Supreme Court in "Bible Tweet" Case

In October 2025, the Finnish Supreme Court heard the case of Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen, who is facing prosecution for alleged "hate speech" after tweeting a Bible verse and questioning how the Lutheran Church could reconcile its support for Helsinki Pride with biblical teaching. Despite two unanimous acquittals, the state prosecutor has pursued a further appeal, extending the case into its seventh year and seeking financial penalties and the removal of her published statements.

October 30, 2025, Finland

Syrian Christian Threatened and Injured in Dutch Reception Center

In October 2025, a Syrian Christian asylum seeker was reportedly threatened, injured, and intimidated by Muslim residents at the asylum seekers’ centre (AZC) in Goes, Netherlands. The incident seems to be part of a broader rise in anti-Christian hostility reported in Dutch asylum facilities.

October 29, 2025, Netherlands

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"On the Notre-Dame fire: "However deplorable this catastrophe may be, it shocks me less than the profanations of so many churches that are less beautiful, much less spectacular, but which witness a hatred and above all a stupidity that are very worrisome. Indeed, I am surprised by how little noise these acts of vandalism elicit. It is as if we were dealing with the most natural thing in the world.""

Rémi Brague, April 2019

"Freedom of religion and of conscience today faces two opposing but equally threatening ideologies: secularist relativism and religious (in reality pseudo-religious) radicalism. "

Pope Francis - address to the International Meeting of Catholic Legislators , August 2018

"It is more dangerous now than any time in history to be a person of faith."

Ambassador Sam Brownback at an event marking the second anniversary of U.S. recognition that the Islamic State committed genocide against religious minorities, including Christians, in Syria and Iraq, March 2018

"Conscience exists to protect patients, as well as the professionals caring for them. How strange would it be if patients simply expected their doctor to ignore their deepest moral reservations and proceed regardless? Would it not concern patients to learn that the healthcare professionals caring for them were forced to participate in activity which they fundamentally disagreed with? All too often, the ability of healthcare professionals to conscientiously object is entirely dependent on the sympathy of their line managers or colleagues."

Fiona Bruce, Member of UK Parliament, March 2018

"The promise of a free and democratic society is that there be no religious or ideological tests or conditions to receiving government benefits or protection. "

87 Christian, Muslim, and Jewish faith leaders to the Canadian government, January 2018

"We're trying to ban a protest because we disagree with the ethos of the protesters, and that is fundamentally wrong."

Conservative member of London Council, Steve O'Connell, on abortion clinic , December 2017

"The protection of Christians needs to be strengthened in our foreign policy, bilaterally and at the EU level."

Sebastian Kurz, December 2017

"If you actively hold a faith that is more than an expression of cultural identity . . . you are deemed to be far worse than eccentric. You are dangerous. You are offensive."

Tim Farron, UK politician who quit as leader of the Liberal Democrats, saying it was impossible to be both faithful to the bible and a political leader, November 2017

"There are quite a few countries in this world . . . in which real persecution is taking place. It is also a subtle persecution, a persecution that leaves no trace. [I]t is a veritable 'systematic purging' of everything that is Christian . . . Even there, where this persecution has not yet morphed into physical violence, it still has a devastating effect and is thus not any less aggressive because a systematic attempt is being made to deny the legitimacy of anything that is Christian even on a historical, artistic and social plane."

Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, November 2017

"I am very disappointed by this ruling, which supports the university’s decision to bar me from my chosen career because of my Biblical views on sexual ethics. I intend to appeal this decision, which clearly intends to restrict me from expressing my Christian faith in public."

Felix Ngole, October 2017

"Many Christians are now worried - even fearful - about mentioning their faith in public."

Fiona Bruce, MP, November 2016

"Particularly worrisome is the fact that across the OSCE region a sharp dividing line seems to be drawn between religious belief and religious practice: 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. This is a deliberate twisting and limiting of what religious freedom, which holds also for Christians, actually means."

Monsignor Janusz S. Urbańczyk, Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the OSCE, April 2016

"Christians must beware of a 'polite' persecution that is cloaked in a disguise of 'culture, modernity and progress Those who suffer this kind of persecution are not persecuted 'for confessing Christ's name, but for wanting to have and manifesting the values of the son of God.' "

Pope Francis, April 2016

"It is an infringement of freedom to require businesses to aid the promotion of ideas to which they conscientiously object. Discrimination against people should be unlawful, but not against ideas."

Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell on Ashers Baking Co. case, February 2016

"Freedom of religion is one of the foundations of a democratic society. But one facet of religious freedom that people often do not recognize so readily, perhaps because it is categorized more frequently with family rights, is the attack on parental rights. However, when analyzed closely, this attack is amongst the most dangerous because it strikes at the rights of parents to raise their own children according to their own religious and moral convictions. "

Paul Coleman, ADF International, September 2013

"In many jurisdictions in Europe and North America, religious freedom can all too easily be 'trumped' by other rights."

Roger Trigg, February 2012

"Tolerance should never be presented as a substitute for conviction. It is not a belief in itself. If it requires everyone to give up their religious beliefs – or the right to wear a cross or celebrate a religious festival – because such characteristics make the non-believer uncomfortable, it in turn becomes a form of intellectual fascism."

Lord David Alton at Vienna Forum, May 2010

"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' . . . When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' "

Abraham Lincoln on the "Know Nothing Party: Letter to Joshua F. Speed, August 1855

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High-Level FoRB Meeting Urges Action on Global Persecution and Western Restrictions

November 13, 2025,

Governmental and non-governmental religious freedom representatives met on the margins of this year’s High-Level Conference of the Article 18 Alliance (A18A) in Prague, held under the auspices of the President of the Czech Republic, to discuss responses to recent reports by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe), and Hungary Helps, confirming a troubling global rise in Christian persecution and discrimination.

German Bishops Conference Warns of Rising Church Vandalism

October 16, 2025,

"All taboos have been broken when it comes to church vandalism." With this statement, the German Bishops’ Conference has warned of a rise in church vandalism in Germany. It is not only the number of cases, but also their severity, that raises concern.

OSCE/ODIHR Releases new Guide on Anti-Christian hate crimes

July 28, 2025,

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has published a Guide on anti-Christian hate crimes, which highlights security needs of Christians in the OSCE region. The guideline complements existing OSCE guides on anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hate crime prevention and issues a strong call for government action.

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