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The Attorney General’s Office (AGU) sent this Thursday (1st) to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) a demonstration in which it defended the suspension of local decrees that prohibit services, masses and religious activities as a way to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. .
The demonstration was sent in a lawsuit challenging a São Paulo decree with this content. The rapporteur of the case is Minister Gilmar Mendes.
The position of the AGU is similar to that of the Public Ministry, presented on Wednesday (31) to the Supreme Court.
The AGU opinion is signed by the new portfolio minister, André Mendonça, who took over this week in the place of José Levi Mello do Amaral Júnior.
“It is possible to affirm, from the outset, that the total restriction of religious activities, even without the gathering of people, in the manner contested in the initial petition, does not meet the proportionality requirements, since it excessively impacts the right to freedom of religion, without demonstrating the correlation with the aims pursued and with contempt for less serious alternatives ”, affirmed the AGU.
“In other words, the unrestricted ban on holding religious events is particularly excessive,” he added.
The document was sent a day after Brazil recorded 3,950 deaths from Covid in 24 hours, the highest daily number in the country since the pandemic began.
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Still in the document, AGU argued that the precautionary measure should be granted since religious activities are suspended in São Paulo until April 11, therefore, until a date after Easter, which makes the celebrations of the period unfeasible.
“For the more than 2 billion faithful who profess the Christian faith in the world, Easter is perhaps the most important celebration of all, since it unites all segments of Christianity, such as Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and the Protestantism, for the most part In Brazil, a country in which around 80% of the population is Catholic or Evangelical, although the non-practicing portion is discounted, the religious importance of the event is indisputable for millions of Brazilians, ”he said.
