In the first major action of the new political party founded and led by the official spokesman of the Terran Patriarchal Holy See, the Hosian People’s Party has launched a campaign for the political and administrative independence of the
Holy Lands, a small territory including the town of
Dolinka and its hinterlands, from the Deltarian Federation. The Holy Lands were once an autonomous part of the Deltarian Czardom under the direct rule of the Pápež, who acted as the region’s Vojvoda, but the region has since been abolished and incorporated into the Federation Republic of Darali in the aftermath of the
War against the Coalition, an act that the Holy See has refused to recognize since then. The Pápež does not recognize Federal rule in Dolinka, asserting that the Holy See needs to maintain clear independence from any political authority and not be subject to any sovereign if it is to freely carry out its spiritual mission. Pointing to the secular and un-Hosian policies promoted by the Deltarian Federation, such as laws that promote homosexuality, adultery, drug use, promiscuity, and the killing of unborn children, as well as forms of anti-Hosian persecution, such as the prohibition against the preaching of the faith by the Church, the ban on prayer in schools, or the obligation of elected officials to keep their faith hidden, the Church argues that the Deltarian Federation is a totalitarian government worse than the Czardom and whose only purpose is the eradication of the Patriarchal faith and its replacement by hedonistic libertinism. Seeking to circumvent these anti-Hosian policies, the HĽS demands that the Holy Lands be immediately granted independence, and has made Dolinka’s political and religious autonomy the centerpiece of its electoral manifesto for 4712.