BELGRADE, Aug 24 (Hina) - Multinational Protestant churches in Serbia have addressed the World Council of Churches seeking help due to discrimination against small religious communities by the incumbent authorities, said the head of
the Protestant Evangelical Church, Aleksandar Mitrovic. Addressing a news conference in Novi Sad on Friday, Mitrovic protested against a bill on religious communities which fails to define multinational Protestant churches as religious communities but as "persons with religious goals." Mitrovic also claims the bill violates constitutional principles on the separation of the church from the state, saying that religion classes are being introduced in schools, Serb Orthodox masses held in barracks and religious holidays celebrated as national holidays. Protestant churches were forced to internationalise the problem because they do not want the children of their believers to "attend
BELGRADE, Aug 24 (Hina) - Multinational Protestant churches in
Serbia have addressed the World Council of Churches seeking help
due to discrimination against small religious communities by the
incumbent authorities, said the head of the Protestant Evangelical
Church, Aleksandar Mitrovic.
Addressing a news conference in Novi Sad on Friday, Mitrovic
protested against a bill on religious communities which fails to
define multinational Protestant churches as religious communities
but as "persons with religious goals."
Mitrovic also claims the bill violates constitutional principles
on the separation of the church from the state, saying that religion
classes are being introduced in schools, Serb Orthodox masses held
in barracks and religious holidays celebrated as national
holidays.
Protestant churches were forced to internationalise the problem
because they do not want the children of their believers to "attend,
as of September, religion classes which have been imposed on
them."
(hina) rml