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Understanding Anti-Christian Hate Crimes and Addressing the Security Needs of Christian Communities — A Practical Guide

Anti-Christian hate crimes — criminal offences motivated by bias against Christians — are an extreme manifestation of intolerance that send a harmful message of exclusion to victims and their communities.

This Guide sets out to increase understanding of anti-Christian hate crimes and the importance of ensuring the security needs of Christian communities.

Date:: 28 July 2025
Source:: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Publisher:: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Our work:: Tolerance and non-discrimination

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Religion-related Hate Crime and the Security Needs of Religious and Belief Communities

17 July 2025

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