Rome Newsroom, Jan 14, 2021 / 19:20 pm
A Vatican diplomat highlighted Thursday the "ever-growing intolerance and discrimination against Christians, Jews, Muslims and members of other religions."
Addressing the permanent council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna Jan. 14, Fr. Janusz S. Urbańczyk said he hopes the council will devote close attention to the problem.
"In so doing, we recommend that the Swedish Chairmanship should adopt an approach that, while being comprehensive and addressing cross-cutting issues, acknowledges the specificity of such forms of intolerance and discrimination and addresses the specific needs of targeted communities without showing bias or preferential selectivity among them," the Catholic priest and permanent representative of the Holy See said.
Urbańczyk also urged the OSCE to be wary of giving preference to some human rights over others.