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Spanish town ordered to scrap religious festivals ban mainly impacting Muslims

europeAugust 12, 2025
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Spanish town ordered to scrap religious festivals ban mainly impacting Muslims
Jumilla’s ban on gatherings in public sports centres breaches right to religious freedom, says MadridSpain’s central government has ordered officials in a Spanish town to scrap a ban on reli...

Jumilla’s ban on gatherings in public sports centres breaches right to religious freedom, says Madrid

Spain’s central government has ordered officials in a Spanish town to scrap a ban on religious gatherings in public sports centres, describing it as a “discriminatory” measure that breaches the right to religious freedom as it will mainly impact Muslims.

“There can be no half-measures when it comes to intolerance,” Ángel Víctor Torres, the minister for territorial policy, wrote on social media on Monday. Rightwing opposition parties, he added, “cannot decide who has freedom of worship and who does not”.

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Source: Guardian - World News

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