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"The Croatian parliament has passed a law forcing shops to close on Sundays in a concession to the Roman Catholic church.
The church has campaigned for years for Sundays to be devoted to family or Mass in Croatia, which is almost 90 percent Roman Catholic. But Croatians have begun spending weekends in shopping malls that have flourished across the country in the past few years and remain open seven days a week."
John Paul II visited several times Croatia and looked to Croatia as a symbol of Roman Catholicism. I remember that just after the Balkan war (I have family in Croatia and was born there) that a famous saying in the independent Croatia was: "I am a Catholic first and then a Croatian". We may see soon Sunday law included in the EC constitution that still needs to be ratified.
Source: Associated Press
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