{"id":83648,"date":"2026-06-14T08:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83648"},"modified":"2026-06-14T08:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:43:18","slug":"anti-christian-hate-crimes-across-europe-surge-in-may-as-arson-attacks-reach-2026-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/anti-christian-hate-crimes-across-europe-surge-in-may-as-arson-attacks-reach-2026-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Christian Hate Crimes Across Europe Surge In May As Arson Attacks Reach 2026 High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Christian Today:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anti-Christian incidents across Europe rose sharply in May, with new figures showing the highest monthly number of arson-related attacks recorded so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report released by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe), 37 anti-Christian hate crimes were documented during the month, targeting churches, Christian institutions, religious symbols and individual believers.\u00a0The latest figures follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/news\/report-warns-of-continued-anti-christian-hostility-across-europe-during-april\">OIDAC Europe&#8217;s April report<\/a>, which recorded 38 anti-Christian hate crimes across the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Christian Today: Anti-Christian incidents across Europe rose sharply in May, with new figures showing the highest monthly number of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83649,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83648\/revisions\/83649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}