Call To Stop Having Catholic Feast Days As National Holidays
On July 27, 2006 while the education reform controversy was ongoing (see below) the Socialist Senator Antonio Peredo joined with other members of Morales’ Movimiento al Socialismo in the Bolivian Parliament to call for an end of recognizing Catholic feast days such as Corpus Christi and All Saints Day as national holidays. The suggested policy was to only recognize Holy Week and Christmas. For the nationally recognized holidays to change the policy would have to be approved by the full Parliament.
Read more about this topic: Evo Morales And The Roman Catholic Church
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