"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

"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

"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

“It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.”

– Chris Patten, April 2011

“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

"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

"Excluding signs of Christian civilization from Europe does not make it a place friendlier to non-Christians."

– Russian-Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion, September 2011

“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

"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

"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

"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

"Christianity will become a faith that can speak in the public square less and less freely."

– Archbishop Charles Chaput, August 2010

"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

“[It is] almost socially unacceptable to say you believe in God.”

– Jeremy Vine, 2009

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

– Roger Trigg, February 2012

“Societies in which freedom of religion and speech flourish are more resilient, more stable, more peaceful, and more productive.”

– Hilary Clinton, Nov. 2010

"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

“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

"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

"Hate incidents and hate crimes directed against Christians strike at the core values of the OSCE community."

– Lamberto Zannier, September 2011

"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

“7 out of 10 Anglican clergy experienced some kind of violence from 1999 to 2001.”

– Independent Academic Research study, September 2001

"If you are a badge-wearing Christian, you are more likely to be marginalised more than any other religion."

– Peter Kerridge, Feb. 2012

"The only religion the West permits criticism of is Christianity."

– Dennis Prager, July 2007

"[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

"Does fairness and equality only apply to people who are non-Christians in this country?"

– UK House of Commons, M. Jackson, Feb. 2009

“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

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