Europe’s Christians: Increasingly Squeezed Between Islamists and the Left
17th June 2026
As riots triggered by migrant attacks convulse the UK, the debate over immigration in Europe is reaching a fever pitch. The same question is asked, time and again: If nobody voted for this, why does it keep on happening? In the past two years, migrant violence has been recorded—and in some cases triggered violent public backlash—in Germany (a toddler and man stabbed to death by an Afghan); Belfast (a man stabbed in the street by a Sudanese refugee); France (a deadly stabbing by an Algerian in Mulhouse); as well as Poland, Sweden, and Spain, among others.
By contrast, the steep rise in anti-Christian hate crimes, meticulously tracked by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe, has gone largely unreported. In May alone, OIDAC Europe reported 37 hate crimes targeting “Christian places of worship, religious symbols, religious spaces, Christian institutions, and Christian individuals,” including:
- 13 arson-related attacks (the highest in 2026 thus far)
- 10 cases of vandalism
- 3 cases of deliberate “desecration”
- 3 cases of physical violence
- 3 thefts of religious objects
- 3 cases of “vandalism and violence”
- 1 case of incitement
- 1 case of disruption of worship