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Britain is under threat from a rising tide of "militant secularisation", a cabinet minister has warned.
Conservative co-chairwoman Baroness Warsi will say during an official visit to the Vatican that religion must be given a greater role in public life.
She warns in the Daily Telegraph that religion is being sidelined and will highlight the issue in a speech later.
Her visit marks the 30th anniversary of the re-establishment of full diplomatic ties between Britain and the Vatican.
The Tory peer will use her speech - the first to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy by an outside minister - to call for Europe to become more "confident in its Christianity".
"In order to encourage social harmony, people need to feel stronger in their religious identities, more confident in their beliefs," she is due to say.
"In practice this means individuals not diluting their faiths and nations not denying their religious heritages.
"If you take this thought to its conclusion then the idea you're left with is this: Europe needs to become more confident in its Christianity."
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'Our lifestyle needs to be more religious
Specifically, it needs to have more of my religion'