Archbishop Zvolensky slams lengthy public worship ban in Slovakia

Chairman of the Slovak Bishops Conference, Archbishop of Bratislava Stanislav Zvolensky, on Friday wrote a letter to acting health minister Eduard Heger, in which he seemed to have lost patience with the lengthy ban on public religious services in Slovakia due to COVID-19. Zvolensky stressed that religious communities have been doing their utmost for a year to help the state to contain the pandemic. "Our pleas to be given at least the most basic scope for spiritual service haven't brought any result," said Zvolensky, who deems the restriction of religious freedom in Slovakia inappropriate.