https://zenit.org/2013/12/16/concept-of-human-rights-has-its-roots-in-christianity-says-vatican-official/ The World Seen From Rome Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:19:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://zenit.org/2013/12/16/concept-of-human-rights-has-its-roots-in-christianity-says-vatican-official/#comment-280 Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:19:38 +0000 https://zenit.org/concept-of-human-rights-has-its-roots-in-christianity-says-vatican-official/#comment-280 […] Zenit, a Catholic religious publication, reports that Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican’s secretary for Relations with States told delegates attending a conference on Christianity and freedom that the concept of human rights has its original roots in Christianity. He stressed that “the concept of human rights itself originated in a Christian context’ and offered as an example St. Thomas More. The 16th century martyr, at the price of his own life, ‘bore witness to the fact that Christians, in the light of reason and by virtue of their freedom of conscience, are called to reject every form of oppression’ he said. ‘The link between Christianity and freedom is thus original and profound,’ he continued. ‘It has its roots in the teaching of Christ himself and Saint Paul appears as one of its most strenuous and brilliant defenders. Freedom is intrinsic to Christianity, for it was, as Paul says, for freedom that Christ set us free’,he said, adding that while Paul referred to interior freedom, this ‘naturally also has consequences for society.” […]

]]> https://zenit.org/2013/12/16/concept-of-human-rights-has-its-roots-in-christianity-says-vatican-official/#comment-279 Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:01:08 +0000 https://zenit.org/concept-of-human-rights-has-its-roots-in-christianity-says-vatican-official/#comment-279 […] Zenit, a Catholic religious publication, reports that Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican’s secretary for Relations with States told delegates attending a conference on Christianity and freedom that the concept of human rights has its original roots in Christianity. He stressed that “the concept of human rights itself originated in a Christian context’ and offered as an example St. Thomas More. The 16th century martyr, at the price of his own life, ‘bore witness to the fact that Christians, in the light of reason and by virtue of their freedom of conscience, are called to reject every form of oppression’ he said. ‘The link between Christianity and freedom is thus original and profound,’ he continued. ‘It has its roots in the teaching of Christ himself and Saint Paul appears as one of its most strenuous and brilliant defenders. Freedom is intrinsic to Christianity, for it was, as Paul says, for freedom that Christ set us free’,he said, adding that while Paul referred to interior freedom, this ‘naturally also has consequences for society.” […]

]]> https://zenit.org/2013/12/16/concept-of-human-rights-has-its-roots-in-christianity-says-vatican-official/#comment-278 Wed, 21 Dec 2016 11:01:38 +0000 https://zenit.org/concept-of-human-rights-has-its-roots-in-christianity-says-vatican-official/#comment-278 […] Zenit, a Catholic religious publication, reports that Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican’s secretary for Relations with States told delegates attending a conference on Christianity and freedom that the concept of human rights has its original roots in Christianity. He stressed that “the concept of human rights itself originated in a Christian context’ and offered as an example St. Thomas Moore. The 16th century martyr, at the price of his own life, ‘bore witness to the fact that Christians, in the light of reason and by virtue of their freedom of conscience, are called to reject every form of oppression’ he said. ‘The link between Christianity and freedom is thus original and profound,’ he continued. ‘It has its roots in the teaching of Christ himself and Saint Paul appears as one of its most strenuous and brilliant defenders. Freedom is intrinsic to Christianity, for it was, as Paul says, for freedom that Christ set us free’,he said, adding that while Paul referred to interior freedom, this ‘naturally also has consequences for society.” […]

]]> https://zenit.org/2013/12/16/concept-of-human-rights-has-its-roots-in-christianity-says-vatican-official/#comment-277 Tue, 20 Dec 2016 05:14:43 +0000 https://zenit.org/concept-of-human-rights-has-its-roots-in-christianity-says-vatican-official/#comment-277 […] those who adhere to the collectivist mentality which dominates Marxist and socialist philosophies.Zenit, a Catholic religious publication, reports that Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican’s […]

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