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by bcadmin | May 17, 2022 | Bishop Kevin Vann, Bishop Shelton Fabre, Cardinal Blase Cupich, Church in the US, Diocese of Buffalo, Diocese of Orange, Hate crimes, mass shooting, News, Racism, USCCB | 0 |
In the aftermath of racially-motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York supermarket Archbishop Shelton Fabre of Louisville says “we are called by Our Lord ‘to love one another’ as he has loved us.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 17, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic news, Church fire, church vandalism, Europe, Free Access, Hate crimes, News | 0 |
According to newly published data from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the number of hate crimes against Christians in Europe rose sharply in 2020. The OSCE data, published Nov. 16, documented 980 incidents against Christians, including arson attacks on Catholic churches, desecration and robbery of Eucharistic hosts, assaults on priests, and anti-Catholic graffiti
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 9, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, COMECE, European union, Hate crimes, News | 0 |
The Brussels-based commission representing the Catholic bishops of the European Union is backing tougher steps to combat hate crimes, but warned that current EU proposals could violate religious freedom and have a “chilling and self-censoring effect.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 28, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in UK and Ireland, Hate crimes, News, Scotland, second | 0 |
Scotland’s government has created a fund to help places of worship set up security measures to tackle hate crime.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Arkansas, Associated Press, Church in the US, Hate crimes, LGBT, News, Religious Freedom | 0 |
Arkansas lawmakers on Monday approved a stripped-down alternative to hate crimes legislation that longtime supporters of such laws have criticized as not providing true protections following a succession of new measures restricting the rights of transgender people.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 19, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church fire, Church in the US, Crime, Florida, Hate crimes, News | 0 |
A man accused of setting a Florida church on fire last year is facing a federal hate crime charge, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 8, 2021 | Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, church vandalism, General, hate crime, Hate crimes, Houston, News, News Briefs, Texas, The Dispatch, Virgin Mary | 0 |
A priest in Texas is pointing out the increase in church vandalism in his state and the nation, after a statue of Mary was defaced at his church about a week ago. Father Adman Purdy […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Scotland, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, Hate crimes, Hate speech, News, Scotland, Scottish bishops, Scottish Parliament, United Kingdom | 0 |
The Scottish government should withdraw parts of a hate crime bill because of the risk it will lead to the prosecution of people solely for disagreeing with gender ideology and same-sex marriage, said Catholic and Protestant leaders.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | Alberta, Canada, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Hate crimes, News | 0 |
A 25-year-old Edmonton man was charged with a hate crime after he allegedly disrupted Mass at a church and briefly posted an obscenity-laden video online.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 14, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Scotland, Church in UK and Ireland, Fratelli Tutti, Free speech, Hate crimes, Hate speech, lead, News, Religious Freedom, religious liberty, Scotland, Scottish bishops, Scottish Parliament | 0 |
Scotland’s government should heed Pope Francis’s call to “foster encounter and to seek convergence on at least some issues” as it debates hate crime legislation, according to Bishop Jopseph Toal of Motherwell.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 29, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Scotland, Church in UK and Ireland, Free speech, Hate crimes, Hate speech, lead, News, Scotland, Scottish bishops | 0 |
Scotland’s bishops have decried ‘cancel culture’ and warned that freedom of expression and belief could be at risk under proposed hate crime legislation.
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