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2011

MAY

13-14
CLAI Consortium
Meeting
Panama

17-24
International Ecumenical
Peace
Convocation
World Council of Churches
Kingston,
Jamaica

26-28
70th Anniversary Celebration
Council of
Churches of Cuba

29-JUNE 4
World Week of Prayer
for
Peace in Palestine and Israel
World Council of Churches

Legislative bill for Equality and
Freedom of Religion and Worship to be presented to Costa Rican
Congress

A
numerous group of Evangelical leaders gathered Thursday in San José
with Representative Carlos Avendaño Calvo of the National
Restoration Party, to know more about the proposed legislative bill
for Equality and Freedom of Religion and Worship to be presented
before the Congress of Costa Rica.

ALC
San
José, Saturday, April 30, 2011

Avendaño
said that the bill has been well thought through and drafted in
consultation with Evangelical leaders, who have enriched it with
their opinions and contributed to its revisión.

The
legislator also recognized the contributions to the country by
Christian faith communities, not only in the construction of
churches, education and health centers, and communications media,
but also in the building of the best values and the increase over
the last 50 years in the participation of religious leaders in the
affairs of the country.

For
his part, the President of the Congress, Luis Gerardo Villanueva
Monje, when giving his best wishes for the consideration of the
legislative bill, said that “Up until now the non-Catholic churches
have been considered under the Law of Associations, a situation that
is inconvenient and which does not recognize their importance.”
Villanueva estimates that about 20% of the Costa Rican population
belongs to Evangelical churches.

The
bill would establish the equal treatment of all faith
communities by the State, the defining of what a religious minister
is, and the creation of  a Department of Religious
Conflicts within the Ministry of Justice and Peace, that will
receive all the complaints and demands having to do with religious
affairs.

Photo:
Freedom of worship, Costa Rica
(TicoVisión)

Source:
TicoVisión: www.ticovisión.com

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