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New Petition Urges Continuation of Key Religious Freedom Role in European Commission

The role of "Special Envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion" is more important than ever.

Joseph Grabowski by Joseph Grabowski
April 28, 2020
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New Petition Urges Continuation of Key Religious Freedom Role in European Commission
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Since 2016, Ján Figeľ, a Slovak politician and former European Commissioner, has served as the “Special Envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief outside the European Union” for the European Commission. It is a role he has fulfilled admirably by all accounts. Today, the International Organization for the Family (IOF) is joining with many other groups in calling for his re-appointment to the position with a new petition.

SIGN THE PETITION

The petition is directed at the President of the European Commission, Ms. Ursula von der Leyen.

The mandate formally ended in 2019, and since then, groups like IOF have had a sense of increasing anxiety while awaiting an announcement for his re-appointment. The new petition aims to encourage the European Commission to act quickly in filling such a vital position, as needed now as ever, as many observers warn about the curtailment of religious freedom rights seen in many countries as part of the response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Figeľ has been a powerful force for protecting persecuted religious individuals and minority populations around the world. Part of his effectiveness stems from his unique candor and wit. For example, he once called for increased “religious literacy” in the age of digital literacy, noting how global solidarity for religious communities lags behind other trends of globalization. In the same remarks, he shrewdly linked the “roots of the refugee crisis” — a problem so much remarked upon — with the less-often spoken about problem of religious persecution, which helped to position the global concern of religious liberty within a broader human rights context and within a paradigm of technological advancement, thus appealing to a larger network of concerned parties.

In a similar vein, in his widely publicized final report from December of 2019 before his mandate entered limbo, Figeľ strikingly called for a “climate change on the issue of religious freedom.” His point was that the issue of religious liberty is a basic human concern, global and inter-generational in scope, not merely one among so many “special interests.”

Despite his excellent work in his few short years of office, threats to religious freedom globally have only grown in recent years—but this only signals that the role of Special Envoy is more important than ever.

iFamNews encourages our readers to sign the petition urging the reinstatement of Figeľ’s office and his re-appointment to the position. While countries scramble to combat the threat of a silently spreading pestilence in Covid-19, leaders must not forget the equally silent by no less grave threat posed by growing religious intolerance.

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Joseph Grabowski

Joseph Grabowski

Joseph Grabowski was the Executive Director of the International Organization for the Family until August 2022. He also served as Director of Communications for the National Organization for Marriage. Joseph has a B.A. in Philosophy from Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook and M.A. in English from Marquette University.  Joe has appeared as an expert on traditional marriage and family in local and nationwide media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Breitbart, and elsewhere. Joe’s writings on traditional marriage and family, as well as on Catholic Social Teaching and the writings of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, have appeared in The Stream, Gilbert Magazine, Ethika Politika, and The Distributist Review, and he has spoken at several national conferences on the place of G.K. Chesterton in 20th Century literature and thought.

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