GOVT. SIGNS AGREEMENTS WITH JEWISH COMMUNITY, THREE CHURCHES

ZAGREB, Oct 10 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Friday adopted two separate agreements regulating issues of common interest with the Jewish Community, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Croatia, the Croatian Old-Catholic Church, and the Macedonian Orthodox Church in Croatia. #L# The agreements regulate relations in the areas of education, culture and spiritual guidance for believers in prisons, correctional institutions, hospitals and social welfare institutions. Once the agreements are signed, Croatia will have six agreements regulating relations with 15 churches and religious communities, not including the Catholic Church. Franjo Dubrovnic, the secretary of the government's commission for relations with religious communities, said that no other European country had relations regulated by agreements with that many churches and religious communities. (hina) rml