Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe) released its Annual Report 2024, which documents a startling rise in violent incidents and hostility against Christians, as well as in vandalism and arson attacks on churches. More than 2,400 anti-Christian hate crimes occurred in Europe in 2023.
Breitbart (Thereza B) In its new report, the Vienna-based Observatory identifies 2,444 anti-Christian hate crimes documented by police and civil society in 35 European countries in 2023, up from 749 such acts identified in 2022. The hate crimes included 232 personal attacks on Christians, entailing harassment, threats and physical violence.
While only 10 European governments submitted data on anti-Christian hate crimes in 2023, civil society reported incidents from 26 European countries.
In January 2023, a Muslim jihadist attacked two Catholic churches in Algeciras, Spain. The man killed an altar server with a machete and injured four people, while shouting “Allahu Akbar” and “Death to Christians.”
In November, a Tunisian Christian convert was beaten and robbed in Italy by Muslims for “attending a Christian church.” The assailants were fellow Tunisians who opposed his conversion from Islam to the Christian faith, according to the presiding judge in the case.
“As far as anti-Christian hate crimes are concerned, we have registered 2,444 cases for 2023, but assume a high number of unreported cases,” Anja Hoffmann, Executive Director of OIDAC Europe, stated.
In fact, police statistics on anti-Christian hate crimes were only publicly available from five European countries, namely Austria, Finland, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, yet these five countries alone recorded a total of 2,111 anti-Christian hate crimes.
Leading the pack with the highest number of anti-Christian hate crimes in 2023 is the country with the highest number of Muslims – France – with nearly 1,000 such incidents, followed by the United Kingdom and Germany.
In January 2023, arson attacks, including Molotov cocktails, were carried out against four churches in Paris. Such crimes show no signs of abating and according to the French Religious Heritage Observatory, 14 criminal arson attacks have taken place in France in the first ten months of 2024.
In March of 2023, two Catholic nuns in Nantes, France, reported that they had been subjected to “beatings, spitting and insults,” forcing them to move away because of the constant hostility and insecurity.
In the UK, one Christian was seriously injured and another killed in a knife attack in October 2023. The first victim, a convert to Christianity from Islam, was stabbed repeatedly by his Muslim flatmate while lying in bed. The perpetrator considered him an “apostate” and therefore “somebody who deserved to die.”
Notably, anti-Christian hate crimes more than doubled in Germany over the last year, from 135 in 2022 to a total of 277 in 2023. In terms of church vandalism, German police recorded more than 2,000 cases of property damage to Christian places of worship in 2023. Europe-wide, nearly a quarter of all crimes of vandalism against churches in 2023 involved intentional acts of desecration.
Of the cases documented by OIDAC Europe where the motives or background of the perpetrators could be established, the majority of perpetrators had a radical Islamic background.
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The Left’s “Long March through the Institutions” in the West and Eastern Europe since WWI has rendered the West and Eastern Europe defenseless vis-a-vis Islam and Moslems.
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