The information was provided by the director of INAR, Castro Maria, at the end of a meeting of the Interministerial Commission for the Monitoring of the Exercise of Religious Freedom, Belief and Worship in Angola, which analysed, among other aspects, the process of recognition of religious confessions.
Castro Maria underlined that, for more than 15 years, the executive has not recognized any religious confession, a task that was entrusted to the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, in the meantime transferred to the Ministry of Culture.
According to the director of INAR, in the next few days, according to the schedule of activities, permanent contacts will be maintained with these religious confessions to see if they are fulfilling the requirements of the law that will lead to their recognition by the State.
"So that we can inform those religious confessions, which from then on, according to the law, will be able to continue with their processes or they will have to supplement data, information or documentation so that the process can continue", he said.
He emphasized that 84 churches have been recognized in the country since 1987, in various phases, and another 97 are in the process of recognition.
"There are other churches that have not met the deadlines for their recognition process, they will have to stop their activities and wait for a next process", he said.
According to Castro Maria, from now on, the process of recognition of religious denominations will be carried out on a regular basis, without, however, stipulating a deadline.
"Until recently we had about 1800 non-recognised churches, so this is where they will have come out of, and the others are still waiting for other stages that may come after this process has been completed," he said.
