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Semi-random fun fact: More than two French churches per day are desecrated/destroyed/burned.
No.
These figures contained everything from theft (mostly offering boxes, that are easy prey for thieves) and graffiti on the walls (most of which are just random graffiti rather than attacks against Christianity) to actual hate-fueled damage. The latter are indeed increasing but are still low. Some of them seem to be false flag operations.

What I find interesting is that most of the people who focus on these figures completely ignore the fact that the disrepair/lack of maintenance has a much bigger impact on churches. It's like they don't really care about churches and just care about fueling hatred between communities.
 
No.
These figures contained everything from theft (mostly offering boxes, that are easy prey for thieves) and graffiti on the walls (most of which are just random graffiti rather than attacks against Christianity) to actual hate-fueled damage. The latter are indeed increasing but are still low. Some of them seem to be false flag operations.

What I find interesting is that most of the people who focus on these figures completely ignore the fact that the disrepair/lack of maintenance has a much bigger impact on churches. It's like they don't really care about churches and just care about fueling hatred between communities.
"According to a report by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe, 2 444 anti-Christian hate crimes were documented in 2023, including nearly 1 000 in France (41 % of the total in Europe). Of those, 62 % were acts of vandalism, 10 % were arson, and 7 % were acts of physical violence.[1]

The trend took a turn for the worse in 2024, especially in France, where actual and attempted arson attacks against churches increased by more than 30 %[2]."
according to https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2025-000584_EN.html
 
Well I tried to find some data both in the references @kuru sent and some references in the Commission response to that parliamentary questions, and I could spend some more effort, but at a glimpse it looks like @ElPoco would be right.
It called my attention that many of the anti-Christian reports are for attacks against Jehovah Witnesses (JW). Or it might be an artifact (maybe JW just report better or whatever). I'm not sure why I wasn't counting on them (was it because @kuru initially spoke of churches and JWs don't call their sites "church" but "kingdom hall"?).
I guess I had heard JW were Christian, and in fact it is the only Christian group I remember to have ever been seen discriminated. But that's anecdotal, I don't see everything.
They are also the only religion I've seen knocking at doors for proselytism.
Once they came 3 consecutive days to my door, just because I made the mistake to talk to them.
I ended up telling them that I was a DIY fan and if I ever needed a religion I would build my own, and not based on such a book as the Bible. Maybe I'd use Le Petit Prince as my sacred book. Then they didn't come again.
I've seen other religion believers reaching out in the street but not door to door.
Not that they should be targeted but they seem to engage more with all kinds of people than others.
But this data seems fishy or I read it wrong, I don't know. They only know of 5 cases of racism in 2024 in France ? really ? [Edit: Sorry, I misread that page}
It's also not easy to count. They only have one case against LGTBI, but it is a hate murder, you can't compare that with some hundred graffittis.

In fact 2024 seemed better than 2023, although it could be a defect on the reporting or statistics, and of course you can always look for a subset of the data that got worse.
 
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