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Bishop Czeslaw Kozon has been bishop of Copenhagen since 1995 and in COMECE since 2007. He was recently elected vice-president of the commission, shortly before meeting with Pope Francis on Thursday morning. You have just come from a meeting with Pope Francis and the first obvious question is ‘how was that?’He said many things that are obvious for people who are really interested in Europe but also things that have to be repeated, especially for younger generations.
You speak of unity and unifying, and what you, as European bishops do and what the Holy Father asks of you is to be a bridge between the Church in Europe and the European institutions. How do you do that, and how do you do that while still maintaining the diversity of the different countries? But apart from that, we have a special point that we want to enhance and which is becoming more and more important. The other topics are dealt with by many people of goodwill, but the point I'm thinking of is religious freedom. That's something I really see endangered in Europe in spite of all tolerance, liberalism, and individualism. That doesn’t seem to always go for religion.
There may be, but I think the main concern of most countries is that they think too many migrants will be more than a single individual country can cope with financially, regarding housing and work and so on. And that's a concern that is justified. But when they want to block or impede too heavy a Muslim influence, they have to make laws in order not to discriminate and that will also affect other religion and also Christian churches who have a very long tradition in Europe - also, the Catholic Church in Protestant countries is facing more and more challenges because of this new restricted vision on immigration.
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