Evangelicals respond

[NewsWhore]

Members of the country's Evangelical churches have responded to criticisms from Catholic bishops who oppose the General Religious Association Bill that seeks to extend them the same privileges that the government grants the Catholic Church. The Supreme Court of Justice has already ruled that the Concordat agreement, the basis for many of the privileges, between the Vatican and the Dominican government is one between states and does not violate the Constitution. But Evangelical leader Domingo Paulino Moya, president of the Jesus es Sanidad y Vida Eterna Ministry wants the DR to follow in the footsteps of Costa Rica, where equality of conditions and rights was achieved for Evangelical churches.

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