EUROPE / AUSTRIA - Week of human rights and "right to the mission:" the abolition of the proclamation of faith threatens the freedom of all, and with it peace "
Vienna (Agenzia Fides ) - "Still today, worldwide, human rights are trampled. They are often especially minorities who suffer. The plight of millions of Christians is particularly dramatic. Never before have so many people because of their Christian faith, are discriminated against persecuted or even killed "underscores the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria, P. Maasburg Leo, in his reflection, sent to Fides, on the occasion of Human Rights Day, December 10, recalling the signing of the Declaration of Human Rights (December 10, 1948).
For the occasion, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria - Missio Austria - recall the critical situation of human rights worldwide. "Even in Europe phobias against Christians and attacks on the right to freedom of religion is expanding!" Underscores P. Leo Maasburg, in reference to the sentence on the crosses and the debate on the construction of minarets says: "The right to religious freedom guarantees the practice of religion in public. Mission's faith means actively and publicly, and part of religious freedom. Therefore should not be undermined by secularism misunderstood. On the contrary: the elimination of the proclamation of faith threatens the freedom of all, and with it peace. "
(MS) (Agenzia Fides 10/12/2009)
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