Belgian imams can now receive salaries from abroad, says Belgian Constitutional Court Court rules that Flemish region decree prohibiting direct or indirect support or financing to places of worship from abroad violated Constitution

July 21, 2023   

(Anadolu) Belgium’s top court has issued a decision opening the way for Muslim imams in the country’s Flemish region to get salaries from abroad and similar arrangements.

In October 2021, a decree was issued in the Flemish region prohibiting direct or indirect support or financing to places of worship from abroad — including the payment of salaries to imams working in mosques. …

The Belgian Islamic Coordination Council, represented by several local Muslim groups, challenge[d] the decree at the Constitutional Court, which Thursday overturned certain provisions of the decree, saying that they violated religious freedom.

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