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485 cemeteries or places of worship were damaged between January 1st and September 30th, 2010. 410 were Christian sites, 40 Muslim sites and 35 Jewish sites.
– Former Minister M. Hortefeux, November 2010
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In many jurisdictions in Europe and North America, religious freedom can all too easily be 'trumped' by other rights.
– Roger Trigg, February 2012
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“Recent attacks on Christian communities have highlighted the necessity to address the problem of intolerance against Christians with a specific focus on hate crimes."
– OSCE Report, September 2011
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“Christianity is under pressure from a form of secularism, particularly in Europe... It seems that there is a fear of allowing religion to play a role in public life.”
– UN Economic and Social Council, December 2004
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“[It is] almost socially unacceptable to say you believe in God.”
– Jeremy Vine, 2009
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"These are worrying signs of a failure to appreciate not only the rights of believers to freedom of conscience and freedom of religion, but also the legitimate role of religion in the public square."
– Pope Benedict XVI, September 2010
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"We need to create a country in which people can be unashamedly proud of their faith – where they don’t feel that they have to leave religion at the door."
– Baroness Warsi, November 2011
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“Societies in which freedom of religion and speech flourish are more resilient, more stable, more peaceful, and more productive.”
– Hilary Clinton, Nov. 2010
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"Christianity will become a faith that can speak in the public square less and less freely."
– Archbishop Charles Chaput, August 2010
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"The influence of a certain anti-Christian attitude is being spread through the media, in textbooks or in public opinion."
– Cardinal Peter Erdö, September 2011
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“I am gay and I am atheist but... it seems to me that what we are doing is producing a tyrannous new morality that is every bit as oppressive as the old.”
– David Starkey, March 2011
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"Christians [in the UK] continue to voice concern about the ability to express their faith in the workplace."
– Report on International Religious Freedom of US state department, Nov. 2010
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"Does fairness and equality only apply to people who are non-Christians in this country?"
– UK House of Commons, M. Jackson, Feb. 2009
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"I imagine many Christians today feel under threat... We don’t have to agree with them, but we must recognise their right to disagree with us."
– Roger Helmer, September 2010
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"Christianity isn’t being violently rejected from the public sphere, but quietly banned from all areas of the collective memory."
– Jean-Pierre Denis, June 2011
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"One can only regret the silence of the media and the institutions when it comes to the very numerous desecration of Christian sites."
– Louis Guédon, French member of parliament, September 2012
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"I can not help wondering about the moral responsibility of certain media who nurture in French society a particularly unhealthy climate of anti-Catholicism."
– Mgr Marc Aillet, October 2010
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"We often hear about Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and very little is said about Christianophobia, which is gaining strength in many European countries."
– Russian-Orthodox Metropolit Hilarion, January 2008
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"Hate incidents and hate crimes directed against Christians strike at the core values of the OSCE community."
– Lamberto Zannier, September 2011
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“I am not Catholic, but I think there is prejudice and especially major anti-clericalism that is taking on enormous proportions in Europe.”
– Bernard-Henri Lévy, September 2010
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"You stand a better chance of earnest representation if you are a hedgehog [than a Christian in the UK] – and I speak as a patron of the Hedgehog Protection Society."
– Miss Widdecombe, October 2011
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"Excluding signs of Christian civilization from Europe does not make it a place friendlier to non-Christians."
– Russian-Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion, September 2011
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"There seems to be a prejudice against Christians or against the manifestation of the Christian faith which totally puzzles me."
– Archbishop Peter Smith, September 2011
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"[There is a] crisis of religious freedom by the development of an aggressive form of secularism which seeks to condemn Christians to a marginalization in public life."
– Jaime Urcelay, May 2011
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"If you are a badge-wearing Christian, you are more likely to be marginalised more than any other religion."
– Peter Kerridge, Feb. 2012
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“7 out of 10 Anglican clergy experienced some kind of violence from 1999 to 2001.”
– Independent Academic Research study, September 2001
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“It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.”
– Chris Patten, April 2011
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"The only religion the West permits criticism of is Christianity."
– Dennis Prager, July 2007
