Left Persists With Plans to Defund Catholic Church

Case information
Incident date
Country
Spain
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Political
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Freedom of Religion

United Left (IU) and Initiative for a Green Catalonia (ICV) proposed an amendment to the National Spanish Budget to deprive the Catholic Church of state funding, remove the tax deduction of volunteer contributions of citizens, and end the benefits on value-added-tax and property tax.