AsiaNews: At the forefront of the battle of Catholic schools against Israeli Ministry of Education cuts, the prelate denounces’ attacks by some municipalities on the goods and the coffers of the Church. “We’ve recently heard – he says – that some municipalities have blocked the accounts of churches, clergy, religious orders. Moreover in addition to the services we already regularly pay, they want to compel diocese to pay an extra administrative tax, but it is an absurdity because since the Ottoman empire religious orders have been exempt”. More here.
