Government offers four billion crown solution for church property dispute

The Czech government has passed a proposal that would see up to a third of all church property confiscated by the former communist regime returned. The proposal, which must now be debated by parliament, was authored by the Czech Culture Minister Václav Jehlička. The proposal would also see around four billion Czech crowns going into church coffers, with the vast majority going to the Roman Catholic Church, which has around three million followers in the country.