On the way to the New United Europe: the Position of the Christian Churches During the Elections to Europarliament 2019

Abstract

In the article analyzed the role of the Christian Churches before the elections to the Europarliament 2019. During the elections became evident the ambivalent the formally contradictive position of the churches. At first the churches stand for the values and interests of the EU that refused to mention its Christian roots in the Constitution and then in the Lisbon Treaty. Besides that the EU leadership has secular liberal positions that often limited believers in their attempts to express their faith in public sphere. Secondly, directly or not Christian churches blame the activists of the right wing parties that more likely support the historical churches saying on the returning to Christian roots and the past role of the Christianity in Europe. In that conditions the mission of the majority of the Christian churches has a global character and also inevitably touches immigrants and refugees. With the rare exclusion the church leadership didn’t prohibit for the believers to vote for the right wing parties that raising so important for the churches questions.

Keywords

• migration
• interreligious dialogue
• christianity
• protestantism
• orthodoxy
• catholicism
• church-state relations