{"id":10741,"date":"2021-03-08T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10741"},"modified":"2021-05-31T22:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T05:58:20","slug":"should-religions-freedom-be-diluted-into-a-general-freedom-of-conscience-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10741","title":{"rendered":"Should religions freedom be diluted into a general freedom of conscience law?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spain opens the debate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Evangelical Focus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The conversation about a law of freedom of conscience has gained importance in the last months in <a href=\"https:\/\/evangelicalfocus.com\/tag\/spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spain<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leading political party in government, PSOE (Social Democrats), is prioritising the start of the <strong>discussions in this year 2021<\/strong>, confirmed the Spanish Vice President, Carmen Calvo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, the PSOE has not shared many details of a new law that could replace the <a href=\"https:\/\/evangelicalfocus.com\/europe\/8040\/spain-has-not-understood-protestantism-therefore-it-does-not-understand-laicism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Organic Law of Religious Freedom of 1980<\/a>. But the party of President Pedro S\u00e1nchez has expressed the will to recover parts of the <strong>proposal outlined in 2010 <\/strong>by the former head of government Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero. Back then, the project was discarded in the midst of strong tensions between the government and the Spanish Roman Catholic Church, and the external factor of a visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the country. . .[<a href=\"https:\/\/evangelicalfocus.com\/europe\/10485\/spain-opens-debate-about-turning-religious-freedom-law-into-a-general-freedom-of-conscience-rule\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain opens the debate Evangelical Focus The conversation about a law of freedom of conscience has gained importance in the last months in Spain. The leading political party in government, PSOE (Social Democrats), is prioritising the start of the discussions in this year 2021, confirmed the Spanish Vice President, Carmen Calvo. 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