From: "J Young" 


No doubt that Archbishop Tomasi was referring to the spate of Catholic-
bashing that has taken place in the world.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/antireligious_fanaticism_threa.php



Anti-religious fanaticism threatens religion and believers with insult,
discrimination, persecution and injury that stands in contradiction to the
promise of freedom hailed by democratic societies, said a Vatican
representative to a United Nations body in Geneva, Switzerland.

In a March 22 address to the fourth special session of the U.N. Human
Rights Council, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, head of the Vatican permanent
observer mission to the U.N. -- and other international organizations --
called the international body to protect the "freedom of religion, of
expression, of conscience, of worship in private and in public and respect
of religious convictions for believers of all faiths and for non-believers
alike" within the context of other human rights.

"Abuse of rights of believers, even outright violence against them,
state restrictions, undue impositions and persecution, public insult to
religious feelings, unfortunately persist and call for remedy," he
said.

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