Six years after the separation of church and state, the state still provides the Catholic Church with budgetary resources, as stipulated in the agreements with the religious communities.

Priests and other persons employed by the Catholic Church before 2016 continue to be paid by the state under a transitional scheme. These salaries accounted for €24.5 million in 2021, almost €1 million less than in 2020.
 
In March 2022, around 200 priests will still be covered by the transitional scheme, compared to 270 in 2016.
 
The government has no data on the number of clergymen hired by the church since 2016.

Besides these salaries, the state also provides subsidies to the Muslim, Anglican, and Jewish faiths under the transitional scheme. These subsidies amounted, for example, to more than €600,000 in 2020. The Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox faiths do not receive public subsidies.
 
As far as religious buildings are concerned, Luxembourg currently has 493 churches and chapels. The vast majority of them, 356, belong to the municipalities. The other 137 are owned by the diocese's management fund. The state does not have information on the number of religious buildings that have been desecrated.
 
These details were provided by Minister for Religious Affairs Xavier Bettel and Minister for Home Affairs Taina Bofferding, in response to a parliamentary question by MPs Dan Kersch and Mars Di Bartolomeo from the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP).