UN chief demands that the world ‘step up to stamp out’ hatred

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres demanded that the world “step up to stamp out anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred, persecution of Christians and all other forms of racism, xenophobia, discrimination and incitement.” He was responding to incidents “that have become all too familiar – Muslims gunned down in mosques and their religious sites vandalized, Jews murdered in synagogues, their gravestones defaced with swastikas, Christians killed at prayer, their churches often torched.”