Report highlights latest anti-Christian incidents in Europe

A new report highlights some of the
latest attacks on Christian targets in Europe over the last few months.

The attacks range from vandalism of
a crib in Belgium, to anti-Catholic graffiti being spray-painted on four
churches in Malaga, Spain, to an arson attack on a chapel in France.

The report from is the latest the
Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination in Vienna.

In one incident, four Catholic
churches in Malaga, had slogans spray-painted onto them including, “Get your
rosaries off my ovaries”, “Mary wanted to abort” and “Church=Dictatorship”. The
interior of one of the churches was also targeted by vandals, who dropped
balloons filled with red paint and smashed a statue of the Virgin Mary.

The chapel in the town of Aibre in
France was the target of deliberate arson, while in Belgium a nativity scene
was vandalised.

In Basel, Switzerland, a radical
Muslim organisation known as the Islamic Central Bureau of Switzerland (IZRS)
has been distributing a text called “The Book of Simplified Comment”
on the street. Among other things, the book suggests murdering Christians and
Jews and taking their money.

In Scotland a street preacher, was arrested was arrested and charged with “a
breach of the peace and using homophobic language”, for publically talking
about “sexual sin” including “adultery, promiscuity and homosexual practice”.

The Iona Institute
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