Czech government will pay churches billions in compensation-CathNewsNZ

Czech government will pay churches billions in compensation

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

The Czech Republic has signed an historic agreement with the Catholic Church and 15 other religious groups to pay them compensation for properties seized by the Czech Republic’s Communist regime.

The deal under which the Czech government will pay churches billions of dollars was signed despite left-wing opposition in what is the European Union’s most atheistic nation.

Those who signed the agreement — including Catholics, Protestants and Jews — will receive just over half of their former properties now held by the state, plus compensation for those that were destroyed.

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