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10-22-2008, 03:40 PM
The Supreme Court has ruled that a 1954 agreement between the Vatican and the Dominican State, known as the Concordat, doesn't violate the freedom to practice religion. Judges argued that the agreement doesn't curtail the freedom of practice of religion, yet doesn't hold another religion to privileged status. The judges agreed that all religions have the freedom to practice how they please, despite Catholicism being the predominant religion in the DR. Judges also rejected the idea that the Catholic Church is a privileged institution in the DR. Evangelical Pastor Domingo Paulino says that he expected this from the SCJ and that minority religions received no legal support in the DR. The SCJ is denying this, saying that all groups receive legal support.
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