Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world, according to a European commission of Catholic bishops.
A report issued this week by the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) said that at least three-quarters of all religious persecution was directed at Christians.
In the report the bishops urged the European Union to apply more pressure to countries around the world that failed to protect the religious freedom of their citizens.
They called on the EU’s foreign ministry, headed by the Labour peer Lady Ashton, to set up a “religion unit” to promote the cause of religious freedom more effectively.
