Belgian minister calls for religious TV ban after reading on female submission

Catholic lay reader read verses calling on women to submit to their husbands in Songs of Praise-style programme

The future of Songs of Praise-style religious programmes on Belgian television has been thrown into doubt after a Catholic lay reader gave an on-screen Bible reading calling for women to be submissive to their husbands.

Sven Gatz, the minister for media in Flanders, called for a ban on religious services being shown by public broadcasters in response to the service aired on radio and the television station VRT.

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