A film that narrates the kidnapping and murder of a group of Cistercian monks in Algeria in 1996 has been released these days. award The premiere of this film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival last May, coincides with news in recent weeks of attacks and murders of Christians in various parts of the world, such as Baghdad and Alexandria.

It is worrying and paradoxical that in plenary session of the Executive Council 21st century there are still people who die because of their religious convictions, when we are supposed to have reached a level of Education and coexistence that ensures that no one will be persecuted for their ideas. group Benedict XVI in his Message for this year's workshop World Peace Day affirms that "Christians are currently the religious group that suffers the greatest persecution issue because of their faith". In the same document, the Pope also says that in other regions "there are more silent and sophisticated forms of prejudice and civil service examination towards believers and religious symbols". A recent example. The European Union publishes each year a school diary which it distributes free of charge to students in the EU. This year's edition includes religious holidays of Islam, Hinduism, the Sikh religion, and holidays of the Chinese calendar, but no Christian holidays are mentioned. Apart from more or less debatable arguments, such as the impact of Christianity on European culture and on the very birth of the European Union, there is an indisputable factor goal : Christians are the most numerous group in Europe because of their religious beliefs. What business allows itself the luxury of belittling its main client?

A report has been published on intolerance towards Christians in Europe, which lists cases in the last five years in which Christians have been discriminated against by the political or judicial powers, or have been subjected to hostile actions by civil society. We have seen in Spain cases in which conscientious objection is prevented on religious grounds, cultural events that are a mockery of religious beliefs, the removal of religious symbols in public places, the imposition of a politically correct language that eludes any religious reference letter , the attempt to impose a Education in which there is no reference letter any to the religious phenomenon. We have had the case of the siege to the chapel of the School of Economics of the UB. The General State Attorney's Office in a recent document allows itself to affirm that "public institutions, and especially educational centers, must be ideologically neutral", and then, without the slightest blush at its lack of logical coherence, sentencing, quoting Kelsen, that "the philosophical conception that presupposes democracy is relativism". That is what they call neutrality, and they remain so wide.

These more sophisticated forms of hostility against religion are just as reprehensible as fanatical and fundamentalist attacks. Some end up taking your life, while others "only" take your breath away. The worst thing is that the one who takes your air is the State, and on top of that it seems that you have to thank it.