Abstrakt
Global pandemic of the new coronavirus COVID-19 influenced also the religious life. Religious institutions and individual believers experienced unprecedent tension between their religious freedom and public health security.
In addition, within the Christian churches the state regulations often directly shaped the form of the liturgy and celebration of the sacraments - including the Eucharist. This article chronologically reconstructs, compares and analyses the state-church relations during the first wave of the "corona crisis" in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, two countries with a common history, but very different religious life.
The author describes the development of the state regulations and the reactions of the selected Christian churches within both countries and compares the differences. The article can also be seen as a case study in the field of the research of the Czech and Slovak religiosity