The Croatian Bishop’s Conference has launched an initiative to legally forbid working on Sunday and called on Croatian citizens to support them and contribute to the preservation of Sunday in its historical meaning as a non-working day which is an opportunity for a family reunion.
Healthcare, security, transport and some services that are of general and public interest, which must have staff to operate on Sunday, would be exempted.
“We primarily mean those activities in which the workers, due to weaknesses of Croatian legal protections, are forced to work without a weekly rest,” said the Bishops. “They therefore spend Sundays away from their circle of families and children, while other people spend it as a day of rest. It is no wonder that for them, due to this obvious discrimination, working Sundays bring certain emptiness and gloom,” added the Bishops’ Conference.
The Croatian Bishops’ Conference therefore urges all parts of Croatian society, the lay faithful Christians, Catholic organizations and movements, and all societal institutions and organizations that are committed to people and their dignity, to contribute with their actions to the preservation of Sunday…”
The Croatian bishops have been promoting Sunday rest since 1997. Sunday rest laws are only one step from Sunday worship laws, which is the real aim once the legal framework has established Sunday rest.
“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him…” Revelation 13:8