Europe timid stutters a complaint against the persecution of Christians
Bernardo Cervellera
After nearly three weeks, finally a European text condemns the violations of religious freedom of Christians. The complaint suffers from "excessive" balance and spacing. The EU's inability to understand what is happening in North Africa and the Middle East depends on his ignoring its Christian roots. Without identity there is no ability to read and proposals. The teaching of Benedict XVI.
Rome (AsiaNews) - After more than three weeks of debate, the EU has managed to produce a text that explicitly mentioning Christians as victims of persecution and the object of violent attacks. An earlier text had been prepared in January, after the attack terrorist in a church in Baghdad and the killing in a church in Alexandria, but was rejected because of the lack of references to Christians, since the EU preferred to use the generic term "religious minorities".
yesterday approved the new text explicitly mentions "Christians and their places of worship" victims of "acts of religious intolerance and discrimination," but hastens to add now among the victims of such acts pure "Muslim pilgrims and other religious communities. "
The Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, one of the promoters of the text, had condemned the draft as a sign of 'excessive secularism "present in the EU, but expressed satisfaction with the text adopted yesterday. Moreover, recalling that the European Constitution does not mention the Christian roots of Europe between historical basis, the statement of yesterday is really a gigantic birth.
Yet even this does not satisfy in full text. It seeks to balance the anti-Christian violence with those against other religious communities, in an "excess" of balance and equidistance, not taking into account that at least 70% of persecution against Christians in the world occur. Yet these impressive figures are the result of statistics (from the World Christian Encyclopedia to the Pew Research Centre) and non-partisan reports of hand, so much so that Pope Benedict XVI to use for the first time in a papal speech, the word "Christianophobia" (see address to the Roman Curia, 20 December 2010. See: Pope 12/20/2010 : the rediscovery of the true and good "to play the future of the world and 22/12/2010 Benedict XVI and the Synod: the face of violence, dialogue and forgiveness ).
Above all, the text adopted by the EU does not go beyond some general exhortation on the defense of religious freedom as a universal human right that must be defended everywhere and for all. "
Fa compare the species so text of the EU with solid Benedict XVI's address to the diplomatic corps (01/10/2011 Pope: religious freedom, and marginalization attacked by terrorism). Defending religious freedom for all religious traditions, the Pope addressed to the governments to demand security repeal of unjust laws (such as the blasphemy); room for free education; guarantees for the warmth of the social contribution by the religious communities etc ...
Shyness and babbling on religious freedom are the European counterpart to the approximation all'inanità and Europe in the face of riots taking place in North Africa and the Middle East. In the face of epochal change taking place before our eyes - not with violent demands of justice, equality and democracy - the EU is showing remorse in calling for a "transition" and secretly crying all the fabulous economic contracts drawn up with fallen dictators or balance.
It is said that the world and Europe have been taken by surprise by the riots in Tunisia, Egypt, etc. .. We think that this blindness is due to the fact that in all these years, as the sole reason for the relationship with these countries, our Europe has had only its narrow economic interests and thus the "stability", not a statement of values, attention to society, dialogue between cultures and religions. In practice, European identity was only his wallet: a little 'bit.
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