Christianity Increasingly Pushed Into Private, Warms Head of Justice and Peace
“Examples of intolerance and discrimination against Christians have not diminished, but rather increased in various parts of the OSCE region despite a number of meetings and conferences on the subject,” said Bishop Mario Toso, SDB, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, who represented the Holy See at at an OSCE High Level conference devoted to tolerance in Albania, in May 2013.
“Across the OSCE region a sharp dividing line has been drawn between religious belief and religious practice, so that Christians are frequently reminded in public discourse (and increasingly even in the courts), that they can believe whatever they like in their own homes or heads, and largely worship as they wish in their own private churches, but they simply cannot act on those beliefs in public. .... This is a deliberate twisting and limiting of what religious freedom actually means, and it is not the freedom that was enshrined in international documents.” Read more: http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=17987