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Current AffairsCzech churches to be financed through special fund

08-09-2000 | Olga Szantová

The Cabinet has agreed on a proposal to create a special fund for the financing of churches. If approved, it would mean solving a problem no government has really tackled during the ten years since the fall of the communist regime: namely, the relationship between the state and churches. Churches are still financed by the state, a system introduced after the communist takeover in 1948. The churches have been calling for a change, because, they say, the contemporary system has a negative impact on state-church relations. reports:  More

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