properties seized - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:01:45 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg properties seized - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Czech government will pay churches billions in compensation https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/02/26/czech-government-will-pay-churches-billions-in-compensation/ Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:30:30 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=39984 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 Read more

Czech government will pay churches billions in compensation... Read more]]> 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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