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OIDAC Report Discrimination against Christians in Europe

The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe issued issued its annual report 2022/23 last November. The report finds an increase of anti-Christian hate crimes, rising to 748 cases in 2022. This matches the data of the new OSCE Annual Hate Crime Report, which documents 792 anti-Christian hate crimes in 2022. OIDAC Europe’s…

The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe issued issued its annual report 2022/23 last November. The report finds an increase of anti-Christian hate crimes, rising to 748 cases in 2022. This matches the data of the new OSCE Annual Hate Crime Report, which documents 792 anti-Christian hate crimes in 2022. OIDAC Europe’s annual report found an increase of anti-Christian hate crimes by 44% over the last year. Arson attacks on churches increased even by 75% between 2021 and 2022. The organization also found that more crimes have a clear extremist motivation, and that Christians who expressed traditional Christian worldview have faced legal discrimination.

Please download and find more specifics in the report https://www.intoleranceagainstchristians.eu/publications/annual-report-2022-23

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