ZAGREB, July 4 (Hina) - Nine Churches in Croatia signed agreements with the state on Friday on issues of joint interests, while the other religious communities should do so by the end of the year, the government said.
ZAGREB, July 4 (Hina) - Nine Churches in Croatia signed agreements
with the state on Friday on issues of joint interests, while the
other religious communities should do so by the end of the year, the
government said. #L#
The state, which had already signed agreements with the Catholic
and the Orthodox Church as well as the Islamic community, will thus
have regulated relations with all religious institutions in the
country by this year's end.
On Friday the accords were signed with the Evangelical Church, the
Reformed Christian Church, the Pentecostal Church, the Christian
Adventist Church, the Union of Baptist Churches, the Church of God,
the Church of the Christ, the Reformed Movement of the Seventh-Day
Adventists, and the Union of Pentecostal Churches of Christ.
The agreements regulate said Churches' rights to support from the
state budget, to spiritual counselling, participation in
education, freedom of the press, the building of religious
facilities, and other rights.
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