An Italian evangelical fellowship is facing a potential tax penalty – because the building in which it meets does not look ‘religious’ enough.
Breccia di Roma lacks the usual Roman Catholic paraphernalia, and now faces a Supreme Court battle. Leonardo de Chirico reports:
A couple of years ago, 300 people of CERBI churches (Evangelical Reformed Baptist Churches in Italy) prayed in front of the Supreme Court for justice in the land and for judges called to administer it. This was part of a prayer rally for the city of Rome, its authorities and its people, for the gospel to impact it. We could never have imagined that the following year our church would be called in front of the Supreme Court to defend its rights from a challenge by the Italian Tax Agency.
