A meeting between Catholic bishops held on Monday to discuss “ethical values for European unification”, is set to reignite the debate over references to Christinaity in the European Union (EU) constitution.
The bishops, from across the European Union, drew a report on Europe’s religious heritage which will be presented at their European congress in Rome next March.
Malta, alongside Germany, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia pushed hard to see some reference to a Christian God in the EU’s constitution. In turn, the United Kingdom, France and Sweden opposed to the idea referencing religious statements in the legal text.
According to eupolitix, the church leaders hope their report will give a new impulse to developing a civic sense of Europe as a community of values.
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