#Racism

Scotland: Bishops’ Conference, “revising hate crime laws and protecting freedom of religion”

United Kingdom: Bishops’ message, “The Pope provides a radical view of human fraternity and calls us to fight racism”

Sweden: growing religious intolerance. The Churches: “Full solidarity with Muslims in our Country”

Copies of the Koran burned in public squares, riots and clashes in the streets, racist rhetoric, episodes of xenophobia. Winds…

George Floyd reaction in Europe. Msgr. Antoine Hérouard (France): “Here racism targets strangers”

“The situation in France, and in Europe as a whole, is significantly different. Here discrimination is not based on skin…

Catholics protesting in front of the White House. Card. O’Malley: “Racism is a social and spiritual disease that kills people.”

This time, hundreds of people demonstrating in front of Lafayette Park, overlooking the White House, were not young people with…

Hundreds of volunteers clean up and distribute food after the demonstrations in Minneapolis

George Floyd’s death sparked rallies worldwide, at an extent unseen for decades. In over 350 cities in the United States,…

USA: Protests against racism are spreading across the country. Seven bishops speak out: “We cannot turn a blind eye”

The death of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American killed a week ago by a police officer during an arrest in…

United States: George Floyd’s death. Council of Christian Churches, “like Coronavirus, racism has infected this country”

Racial discrimination: Borrell (EU), “it runs against EU values: universal human rights and fundamental freedoms”