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Piraeus Seraphim: Christianity before modern forms of persecution and marginalizationtranslated

July 9, 2026 · 1 min read

"Christianity in the face of contemporary forms of persecution and marginalization", is the topic on which the Reverend Metropolitan of Piraeus, Mr. Seraphim, informs in the video below, expressing strong concern for the growing phenomena of Christianophobia in the modern world.

"It is particularly noteworthy that in the modern era, which is projected as an era of unlimited freedom and universal protection of human rights, Christianity is still recorded, according to international reports and official figures of organizations, as the most persecuted religion in the world. Even more worrying is the fact that these persecutions are not only manifested in countries with non-religious or authoritarian regimes, but are now also appearing in states of the so-called Western world, which for a long time based their cultural and historical identity on Christian principles and values", says His Holiness initially, stressing that in addition to the traditional forms of persecution in authoritarian regimes, there are now restrictions on Christian expression and in western democracies, through legislative initiatives, judicial decisions and…

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Δημήτρης Αθανασίου
Unfortunately, Seraphim is right. While everyone talks about human rights, you see crosses being cut from schools or persecuted because you say marriage is man-woman. And this is happening next to us, not only in distant countries.
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Luke Johnson
Yeah, Seraphim is spot on. It's wild how they talk about unlimited freedom and human rights while pulling crosses out of schools or fining people for saying marriage is between a man and a woman, like Dimitris said. We see the same creeping stuff here in Australia now too.
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Teodora Popescu
Unfortunately, Metropolitan Seraphim is right. Here in Romania, I can already see how the cross is cut from some public buildings or how teachers are afraid to mention their faith so that no one accuses them of discrimination. And we say that we are a Christian country, but slowly the same restrictions as in the West are creeping in.
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