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Situation of the Church and freedom or religion in Eastern Europe

Resolution 908 (1988)

Author(s):
Parliamentary Assembly
Origin
Assembly debate on 5 and 6 October 1988 (12th and l3th Sittings) (see Doc. 5944, report of the Committee on Relations with European Non-Member Countries, Rapporteur : Mr Atkinson). Text adopted by the Assembly on 6 October 1988 (13th Sitting).
Thesaurus

The Assembly,

1. Recalling its Recommendation 1086 (1988) on the situation of the Church and freedom of religion in Eastern Europe,
2. Calls on the governments concerned to provide for :
a the release of all remaining prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe ;
b the recognition of the Ukrainian (Uniate) Catholic Church in the Soviet Union and the end to the persecution of the Lithuanian Catholic Church ;
c the possibility for the Pope to visit the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia ;
d an end to the persecution of ethnic Turks and to the elimination of Muslim identity in Bulgaria ;
e the possibility for the Pope to visit the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia ;
f an end to the persecution of ethnic Turks and to the elimination of Muslim identity in Bulgaria ;
g the Polish Roman Catholic Church to be allowed to assist in solving the country's environmental, medical and economic problems ;
h a response by the Czechoslovak Government to the thirty-one-point petition by the Roman Catholic Church calling for more religious freedoms ;
i an end to Romania's resistance to any improvement in its treatment of Churches and religious believers, and to its plans to eliminate villages with their churches and Christian heritage ;
j an end to the ban on religious belief and practice in Albania, as the country attempts to come out of its international isolation.