Dr. Gabriele Yonan, a scholar at the University of Berlin, accepts the Torch of Freedom on behalf of all champions of religious freedom.
n the day that the European Journey arrived in Frankfurt, the German press reported that more than 50 American congressmen had signed a resolution demanding that Congress and the President call the German government back to its religious freedom commitments.
Since unification, one human rights report after another has deplored the diminishing respect for the principles of the UDHR by German officials under Helmut Kohl.
A major 1997 study entitled Freedom of Religion and Belief: A World Report by the Human Rights Centre of Essex University, England, found that “In Germany, democracy is used as an ideology to impose conformity. It has been dismaying to discover that the state, and some of its politicians and people, are using what are known from the past to be well-worn paths of discrimination and intolerance . ...”
The Rally for Truth in Frankfurt Continued...
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