COMECE participated in the 2nd European Congress for the Protection of Persecuted Christians in Krakow. The objective of this conference was to pinpoint the directions of legal and political action which should be taken to curb this cruel phenomenon.
(Credit: COMECE)
The Event under the Patronage of the President of Poland was organised by MEP Ryszard Legutko in cooperation with, among others, Aid to the Church in Need, and took place on 5 November 2016. After the opening remarks by His Eminence Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, Metropolitan Bishop of Krakow, the Melkite Greek Catholic H. E. Isaam John Darwish, Archbishop of Zahlé and Furzol in Lebanon emphasized the importance of the presence of Christians in the region and the initiatives of the Catholic Church in Lebanon to have harmonious relations with Islam.
Specialists in international law and foreign policy participated as speakers, including Ms Vilija Aleknaité-Abramikiené (Member of Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania and Former Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE), Mr Jan Dziedziczak (Deputy Minister of State in the government of Poland for UN affairs) and Mr Tamas Török (Deputy Minister of the Hungary government). COMECE Secretariat member José Luis Bazán intervened as speaker in the legal panel, addressing the issue of “Harassment of Christian asylum seekers in asylum centers in the EU”.