The Law Banning the UOC: Can Religious Policy Coexist with Freedom of Religion?

... alarmed by the potential for unjustified collective punishment of an entire religious community and violation of the principles of freedom of religion or belief under a new law ... Neither the crimes of some individuals, nor the historical affiliations of a ... ... privately (i.e., through agreements between state and church elites), outside of public legislation, avoiding polarization of society and discrimination. Pope Francis also implicitly invokes the idea of the “common good” (“those who truly pray always ...