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Belgian court strikes down order shuttering National Conservatism conference for hosting the ‘conservative, religious right’

April 17, 2024

The Belgian justice system has acted promptly to protect the freedoms of speech and assembly by issuing a decisive emergency late-night ruling in favour of the conference on National Conservativism that has been mired in controversy and disruption since it began yesterday in Brussels. The conference, scheduled for 16 – 17 April, will now be able to

Church leaders say Europe must return to Christian roots ahead of EU elections

March 21, 2024

ROME – With European elections just three months away, the continent’s bishops have joined other Christian Churches in lamenting how the Christian principles on which Europe was founded are either being sidelined or instrumentalised for political gain. They have also called for an open and consistent dialogue between Church and State, and asked that all

Why French farmers have the support of the Church in their protest movement

February 05, 2024

The tractors have lifted their blockades of Paris and other major French cities, and the farmers have made their way home. Their two-week nationwide protest movement was suspended on Friday, 2 February, after Emmanuel Macron’s government announced a series of measures – financial and administrative – to alleviate the suffering, the anger and the despair

Why Pope Francis chose Hungary for his speech on ‘ideological colonisation’

May 01, 2023

A year or two ago I speculated about whether Pope Francis had intended a snub to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán by only visiting his country very briefly. It seems I was wrong because the Holy Father has been enjoying a rather longer stay in Hungary in the last few days. Part of his agenda was

Europe’s cultural Iron Curtain entrenches as Brussels takes Hungary to court

July 18, 2022

The cultural Iron Curtain dividing the European Union (EU) between an secular, post-national and progressive west, and a re-Christianising, nationalist and traditionalist east is becoming more entrenched. Late last Friday, the European Commission decided to sue Hungary over what it sees as an anti-LGBT law as well as Budapest’s refusal to renew the license of

Cancelling Christmas would patronise minorities, not empower them

December 16, 2021

The European Commission's attempt to cancel Christmas in the name of inclusivity betrays its condescending attitude towards religious minorities

EU ruling over abortion harms us all

November 25, 2021

The birth of the Christ child is an occasion to reflect on other babies and on life in the womb that precedes birth. The most dispiriting development recently in respect of prenatal human life is the European Parliament’s vote last month, directed mainly at Poland, but having far wider implications. Andrew Tettenborn examines its implications

The European Union’s attack on conscience

November 11, 2021

As its row with Poland intensifies, the EU has passed an abortion resolution that betrays an alarming strain of anti-religious feeling