Christian kids experience bullying from Muslim refugees in Germany, says priest

Young Christian refugees in the German city of Leipzig are experiencing bullying their Muslim counterparts, according to a local Catholic priest who works with underage migrants.

Andreas Knapp, 58, told German radio broadcaster Deutschlandradio Kultur that the Christian migrant children in his study club are suffering persecution from the Muslim youths who outnumber them.

Knapp said that Muslim children have exhibited "disrespectful" behavior towards Christians and "hated" those who came from the Middle East, Breitbart reported.

One Christian boy had to change schools because he was severely bullied by his Muslim classmates.

Another boy told the priest that he was treated as an outcast and that he received threats from Muslim kids at a migrant camp in Saxony.

"There were a lot of children who were all Muslims, and I was the only Christian. When I would go to them and say, ' Let's play football', they said, 'No, you're a Christian!' Then they insulted me because I eat pork," Knapp quoted the boy as saying.

The priest said that that Christians are hated by many Muslims because they are perceived as collaborators with Western powers such as the U.S. and the U.K.

In October, a report released by the watchdog group Open Doors Germany highlighted the persecution experienced by Christian refugees from Muslims in German asylum centers.

"The documented cases confirm that the situation of Christian refugees in German refugee shelters is still unbearable. As a minority they are discriminated against, beaten up by and receive death threats from Muslim refugees and partly by the Muslim staff (securities, interpreters, volunteers) on grounds of their religion," the report stated.

The report revealed that as many as 743 Christian migrants were victims of religiously motivated attacks in the German camps in 2016.

Open Doors noted that the latest figure is most likely just the "tip of the iceberg," and the group asserted that there are still many unreported cases of persecution.

The watchdog group and other NGOs urged German authorities to end the "integration experiments" being conducted at the expense of religious minorities in Germany asylum centers.