Hate Speech Violates Command To Love One’s Neighbor, Says Vatican’s Un Diplomat
Archbishop Christophe Z. El Kassis says hate speech can lead to violence and urges dialogue that protects freedom of expression and human dignity.
- Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, addressed the Global Conference on Promoting Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue and Tolerance in Countering Hate Speech in New York on September 17.
- Addressing the conference, El-Kassis warned that hate speech "poisons public discourse, inflames division, and too often prepares the ground for violence and persecution," regardless of whether it targets individuals based on religion, ethnicity, or nationality.
- While "freedom of expression is a fundamental right that must be protected," El-Kassis stressed that speech deliberately inciting hatred cannot claim liberty's protection, since it erodes the conditions in which genuine freedom flourishes.
- Citing Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, El-Kassis urged, "Let us disarm words and we will help to disarm the world," arguing that authentic tolerance requires the patient effort of dialogue and mutual understanding, not indifference.
- The conference, sponsored by the U.N.'s Alliance of Civilizations created to address social and cultural polarization, reinforced the Holy See's commitment to interreligious dialogue as an essential path toward overcoming prejudice.
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Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis delivered his first address as the Holy See’s representative to the United Nations in New York on Sept. 17.
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Archbishop of the Holy See condemns hate speech at the UN as a threat to human dignity and a source of violence and division among peoples.
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