Mozambique Plans Law To Regulate And Tax Churches

Mozambique is planning a new law that will regulate churches' activities, impose taxes on them, and require them to have a minimum number of 200 signatures in order to register. <br />Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs Minister Helena Kida says a government analysis had revealed warning signs amid a runaway proliferation of churches. <br />The Christian Council of Mozambique is backing most of the provisions of the proposed law, saying it recognises that the government wants to bring order. <br />The provision to tax churches however worries the churches.