The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled against an appeal from an Italian Evangelical church that was told it needed to look more ‘conventional’.
The church, Breccia di Roma, based in Rome, has been told it must pay tens of thousands in taxes or make ‘structural modifications’ to their place of worship to satisfy the authorities’ demands that their space look more like ‘a conventional church’.
Breccia di Roma had to take its appeal to the ECHR after Italian authorities classified its place of worship as a ‘shop’ due to its non-traditional appearance.
