Funding Religious Heritage in Belgium

Legally, the funding of religious heritage raises some important issues in Belgium. This contribution analyses successively: the complexity of the repartition of competences between various actors (II), the incidence of being listed as a monument (III) and the question of the property of churches (IV). We must also mention some difficulties (V), a crucial debate that exists in Belgium about religious heritage (VI) and the problem of desecration of churches (VII). To understand all those topics, it is important to firstly have a look at History of religious heritage in Belgium (I).