EU Parliament’s recognition of ‘Christianophobia’ welcomed

The European Parliament has recognised the actual threat of “Christianophobia” against Christian believers all around the world.

In a resolution passed at the tip of January, the European Parliament reiterated its condemnation of all types of racism and discrimination, including “persecution of Christians”. The resolution noted that Christians living within the Middle East, the birthplace of Christianity, were often among the many worst treated.

“Christian communities within the Middle East, among the many oldest on the planet, proceed to face severe persecution, discrimination, forced displacement and restrictions on their freedom of faith or belief,” the resolution said. 

The resolution went on to say, “Christianity stays essentially the most persecuted religion on the planet today, with greater than 380 million people affected, there is no such thing as a European coordinator liable for combating Christianophobia, regardless that a coordinator has been appointed to combat Islamophobia.”

The resolution formally adopted a 2025 European Parliament report on human rights and democracy on the planet.

That report also reiterates the European Parliament’s “condemnation of all types of racism, intolerance, antisemitism, Islamophobia, persecution of Christians, xenophobia and discrimination on the premise of race, ethnicity, nationality, social class, disability, caste, religion, belief, age, sexual orientation or gender identity; calls for the adoption or the strengthening of mechanisms for reporting discriminatory behaviours, in addition to access to effective legal remedies, to assist end the impunity of those that engage in such acts”.

The news has been welcomed by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe (OIDAC), which particularly noted the popularity that there’s a European coordinator to take care of Islamophobia, but no such post to take care of anti-Christian prejudice and discrimination.

In doing so, the OIDAC said, “the Parliament not only acknowledges the worldwide scale of anti-Christian persecution but in addition highlights an institutional asymmetry throughout the EU’s existing anti-discrimination architecture”.