Editing Separation of church and state (section)

===Greece===
In Greece, there is considerable controversy about the separation between the State and the Church, causing many debates in the public sphere regarding if there shall be a more radical change in the Article 3, which is maintaining the Greek Orthodox Church of Christ as the prevailing religion of the country. The actual debate concerning the separation of the Church from the State often becomes a tool for polarization in the political competition.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Karyotakis|first1=Minos-Athanasios|last2=Antonopoulos|first2=Nikos|last3=Saridou|first3=Theodora|title=A case study in news articles, users comments and a Facebook group for Article 3 of the Greek Constitution|journal=Kome |volume=7|pages=37–56|doi=10.17646/KOME.75672.31|year=2019|issue=2|doi-access=free}}</ref> More specifically, Article 3 of the Greek constitution argues the following:

# “The prevailing religion in Greece is that of the Greek Orthodox Church of Christ. The Orthodox Church of Greece, acknowledging our Lord Jesus Christ as its head, is inseparably united in doctrine with the Great Church of Christ in Constantinople and with every other Church of Christ of the same doctrine, observing unwaveringly, as they do the holy apostolic and synodal canons and sacred traditions. It is autocephalous and is administered by the Holy Synod of serving Bishops and the Permanent Holy Synod originating thereof and assembled as specified by the Statutory Charter of the Church in compliance with the provisions of the Patriarchal Tome of June 29, 1850 and the Synodal Act of September 4, 1928.
# The ecclesiastical regime existing in certain districts of the State shall not be deemed contrary to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
# The text of the Holy Scripture shall be maintained unaltered. Official translation of the text into any other form of language, without prior sanction by the Autocephalous Church of Greece and the Great Church of Christ in Constantinople, is prohibited.”<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/UserFiles/f3c70a23-7696-49db-9148-f24dce6a27c8/001-156%20aggliko.pdf|title=The Constitution of Greece|publisher=Hellenic Parliament|year=2008|isbn=978-9605600730|location=Athens|pages=20–21|access-date=2019-12-28|archive-date=2019-12-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211221015/https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/UserFiles/f3c70a23-7696-49db-9148-f24dce6a27c8/001-156%20aggliko.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

Moreover, the controversial situation about the no separation between the State and the Church seems to affect the recognition of religious groups in the country as there seems to be no official mechanism for this process.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Changing Soul of Europe, Religions and Migrations in Northern and Southern Europe|last1=Vilaça|first1=Helena|last2=Pace|first2=Enzo|last3=Furseth|first3=Inger|last4=Pettersson|first4=Per|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=978-1315614502|location=United Kingdom|pages=69–88}}</ref>