At the Vatican conference, Bannon also said: "We’re at the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict [against Islam] of which if the people in this room, the people in the church, do not bind together and really form what I feel is an aspect of the church militant, to really be able to not just stand with our beliefs, but to fight for our beliefs against this new barbarity that’s starting, that will completely eradicate everything that we’ve been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years." The conference was hosted by the Human Dignity Institute, part of Europe’s religious right.