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European Catholics fear erosion of religious freedoms across continent 04/08/2021 at 2:02 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
by Jonathan Luxmoore, National Catholic Reporter, April 6, 2021
20210322T1115-EUROPE-CHURCHES-FREEDOM-1167921 crop.jpgA woman prays alongside a barrier inside the Cologne Cathedral in Germany March 15, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS/Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen)
A woman prays alongside a barrier inside the Cologne Cathedral in Germany March 15, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS/Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen)
OXFORD, ENGLAND When Spanish parliamentarians passed a law allowing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the run-up to Easter, it was the latest in a program of radical measures that has set the country’s Socialist-led government against its once-powerful Catholic Church.
A woman prays alongside a barrier inside the Cologne Cathedral in Germany March 15, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS/Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen)
Oxford, England When Spanish parliamentarians passed a law allowing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the run-up to Easter, it was the latest in a program of radical measures that has set the country s Socialist-led government against its once-powerful Catholic Church.
Despite a year of bitter controversies, Spain s bishops have maintained a conciliatory stance, pledging dialogue and cooperation where possible.
There and elsewhere across the 27-country European Union, however, there have been complaints that coronavirus restrictions are being used to push through measures that could compromise religious rights.
EU vaccines row: Michel Barnier calls for cool heads after Commision threat over AstraZeneca jabs for UK Joe Murphy
A split opened up in the European Union’s vaccine war with Britain today after Michel Barnier used his farewell speech to warn against “polemics and competition”.
His plea for a truce came emerged as a senior member of the European Commission, Thierry Breton, upped the stakes by saying “zero” AstraZeneca jabs would be shipped to the UK until the company had supplied more doses to Brussels.
Adopting hardline rhetoric Mr Breton, the internal market commissioner, said two major plants in the UK supply chain would not be allowed to export to the UK until the EU has had what it believes is its due, adding: “There is no negotiation.”