Rome, February 26, 2018 (NEV/CS10) – Pastor Luca Maria Negro, president of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI) and of the Evangelical Churches’ Commission for the Relations with the State (CCERS) points out how in the current electoral campaign the urgent issues of religious freedom and of a secular State are totally absent. Negro recalls that Italy does not yet have a law on religious freedom in its legal system, even if this is a fundamental right codified by the art. 19 of the Italian Constitution, and it still relays on the few juridical provisions on the so-called ‘allowed worship’, of the fascist period.
Faced with this situation the CCERS, in view of the elections of March 4, launches an appeal to the political forces in order to commit themselves in the next legislature for “the repeal of the legislation on ‘allowed worship’ of 1929/30 and the issuing of a general law on freedom of religion and conscience. A rule that ought to be valid for all expressions of faith, and especially for those not in the condition to stipulate an Agreement with the State, according to the art. 8, third paragraph, of the Constitution”.
 – Pastor Luca Maria Negro, president of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI) and of the){kind=link}