By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning, everyone. Today, the State Department is releasing the 2021 International Religious Freedom Report. This report offers a thorough, fact-based review of the state of religious freedom in nearly 200 countries and territories around the world. We produce this document every year since 1998, starting under the leadership of then Secretary Albright, whose life and legacy we continue to celebrate.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution provides for religious freedom and prohibits discrimination based on religion. Officials approved 1,292 alternative service applications from conscientious objectors to military service, and courts allowed all but three of 192 conscientious objectors with pending trials to begin alternative...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution bars the federal and state governments from adopting a state religion, prohibits religious discrimination, and provides for individuals’ freedom to choose, practice, propagate, or change their religion. The constitution provides for states to establish courts based on sharia or customary...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: With Ukraine’s assent, the United States and 44 other countries have invoked the OSCE Moscow Mechanism a second time since the start of Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine to investigate reports of human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law by Russian forces in Ukraine. This ...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and protects the freedom of individuals to profess their religion or belief. It is a crime to engage in public speech inciting religious hatred. Parliament continued to pressure the government to counter foreign funding of mosques and Islamic institutions...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met yesterday with Democratic Republic of the Congo Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Christophe Lutundula in Washington, D.C. Secretary Blinken and Foreign Minister Lutundula discussed efforts to promote ...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: West Bank and Gaza Strip residents are subject to the jurisdiction of separate authorities, with different implications for the fabric of life. Palestinians in the West Bank are subject to Jordanian and Mandatory statutes in effect before 1967, military ordinances enacted by the Israeli military commander...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of religion and worship consistent with public order, social peace, and national unity. It provides for the separation of state and religion and prohibits religiously affiliated political parties. Faith-based organizations are...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution declares Islam to be the official religion and sharia the principal source for legislation. It provides for freedom of conscience, the inviolability of places of worship, and freedom to perform religious rites. The constitution guarantees the right to express and publish opinions, provided...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution recognizes Roman Catholicism as the state religion; the law requires the state to contribute to the Catholic Church’s maintenance. The constitution prohibits the state from impeding the free exercise of religions that does not impugn “universal morality or proper behavior," and it provides...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution provides for the right to choose, practice, and change one’s religion, and it defines the country as a Christian nation. The Ministry of Customs and Revenue announced its intention to halt enforcement of a 2017 law that required clergy to begin paying income taxes, from which they were...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution declares the state is secular and guarantees freedom of religion, equal rights irrespective of religious belief, and the right to worship and profess one’s religion. The law states government officials may prohibit the activity of a religious association for violating public order or...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: According to the 1992 Basic Law of Governance, the country’s official religion is Islam and the constitution is the Quran and Sunna (traditions and practices based on the life of the Prophet Muhammad). The legal system is based largely on sharia as interpreted by the Hanbali school of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
News Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Italy on the 76th anniversary of the founding of the Italian Republic.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The country’s constitution contains written provisions for religious freedom and prohibitions against discrimination based on religious grounds. According to the religious freedom advocacy organization Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), the Cuban Communist Party (CCP), through its Office of Religious...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution and other laws provide for freedom of conscience, thought, and religion, and for freedom to change one’s religion or beliefs. Although the law requires registration for religious groups to conduct a full range of activities, religious groups stated they could conduct most normal functions...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and prohibits the government from taking any action to compel, prohibit, or hinder the exercise of religion. On Jan. 18, the government celebrated the annual National Day of Prayer that “welcome[d] all expressions of religion…without reservation or reproach.".
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religious belief, with the stipulation that “religion must not be used as a pretext for drawing in foreign forces or for harming the State or social order." In July, the UN Secretary-General reported to the UN General Assembly that there was a “growing body of...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: Acting Coordinator for the Global Engagement Center Leah Bray will travel to Brussels, Belgium, from June 5 to 9 and to London, United Kingdom, from June 10 to 14. Acting Coordinator Bray will be accompanied by Bureau of Global Public Affairs Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Bill Russo.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2022
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and the right to profess one’s religious beliefs. It prohibits discrimination based on religion. The Ministry of Interior (MOI) is responsible for formally recognizing churches, religious denominations, religious federations and confederations, and associations...
