EU commission urges action to protect religious freedom
A large European Union flag lies at the center of Schuman Square outside of the EU headquarters in Brussels May 8, 2021. (CNS photo/Yves Herman, Reuters)
By Catholic News Service • Posted July 20, 2021
BRUSSELS (CNS) European bishops called on the European Union to do more to protect religious freedom in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as part of efforts to strengthen the bloc’s role as a “global humanitarian, development, economic and peace actor.”
“Vulnerable religious communities are experiencing discrimination, intolerance and, in some cases, persecution as victims of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes,” the Brussels-based Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union said in a joint statement with the non-Catholic Conference of European Churches.
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St. John Paul II and Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski embrace at the Vatican in this 1978 photo. Cardinal Wyszynski is scheduled to be beatified in Warsaw Sept. 12, 2021. (Credit: Arturo Mari/CNS.)
Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, scheduled to be beatified Sept. 12, was ready to seek agreements in a Christian spirit, but also firmly believed certain boundaries could not be crossed, said a leading theologian and political scientist.
Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, scheduled to be beatified Sept. 12, was ready to seek agreements in a Christian spirit, but also firmly believed “certain boundaries could not be crossed,” said a leading theologian and political scientist.
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