[mac_truck]

"We are also alarmed by the widespread religious intolerance in Western countries, where movements propagating aggressive secularism, are gaining pace and attempting to undermine the moral foundations and religious component of the European civilization. Christians are feeling discriminated in daily life. Hostility towards them is manifested in multiple acts of vandalism and desecration of churches, holy sites, cemeteries, Christian symbols and so on,"

Worth repeating...bump

[grania]

If US foreign policy had any morality left to it, it wouldn’t be in the business of destabilizing governments that protect and defend Christians and other minorities.

[leopardseal]

Has any American pol ever said anything about trying to protect Christians lately?

[tlozo]

Lavrov is a hypocrite. Russian government persecutes non-orthodox Christians. The Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations, enacted in 1997 under President Boris N. Yeltsin to define the state’s relationship with religion, says respect should be accorded firstly to Orthodoxy, and secondly to Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and [non-Orthodox] Christianity.

http://www.christiansincrisis.net/latest-news/643-why-russia-persecutes-non-orthodox-churches.html