News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- A former Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service pleaded guilty today to charges of money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Washington...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- A former Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service pleaded guilty today to charges of money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Washington...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution stipulates everyone is free to choose his or her faith. It makes the state responsible for “protecting the religious…interests of the People" and Roman Catholicism the state religion with full protection from the state. It stipulates other religions may practice their faith within the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon from Chicago has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for illegally brokering the sale of more than 75 guns.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The law prohibits religious discrimination, prevents restrictions on religious freedom, and includes provisions for prosecuting religious hate crimes. Catholic religious instruction is offered in all public schools, but the law guarantees the right of nonparticipation without penalty. Taxpayers may designate...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution provides for freedom of conscience and worship, and of religious instruction. Religious organizations may register with the government under the regulations provided for nonprofit corporate bodies. A Seventh-day Adventist student had to relocate to a school in Dili after being expelled...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Raymundo Munoz, 69, of Sunland Park, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 72 months in prison for his conviction on heroin trafficking charges. Munoz will be on supervised release for four years after completing his prison sentence.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution provides for the free exercise of religious profession and religious worship and prohibits the establishment of religion by law. President Rodrigo Duterte approved a “strategic peace roadmap" which the government said would address the aspirations of Muslim and other separatist groups...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution guarantees freedom of religion as well as the right to change one’s religion. It specifies there is no state religion and guarantees equality and freedom for all religious communities. The law prohibits religious discrimination and hate speech. Religious groups, especially the Serbian...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and prohibits religious organizations from exercising any political authority or receiving privileges from the state. The government continued to grant protective status to some religious adherents claiming persecution in their native countries, including...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of conscience, thought, and religion, including the freedom to change religion or belief and to manifest and propagate one’s religion. The government provided extensive support for schools operated by religious groups, including by paying and certifying all teachers.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The transitional constitution stipulates separation of religion and state, prohibits religious discrimination, and provides religious groups freedom to worship and assemble freely, organize themselves, teach, own property, receive financial contributions, communicate and issue publications on religious matters, and establish charitable institutions.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution provides for the right to choose, practice, and change one’s religion. In December Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi brought a constitutional amendment to parliament which would establish Christianity as the official state religion. Parliament had not discussed the amendment...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution provides for separation of religion and state. It guarantees freedom of conscience and states everyone has the right to profess or not to profess any religion. The law provides for freedom of worship and freedom from religious persecution, but provides for restricting religious activities...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of conscience and the right of all individuals to freely profess, practice, and propagate religion; mandates a secular state; requires the state to treat all religions impartially; and prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion. It also states citizens must...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The Basic Law (the constitution) prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of faith and conscience and the practice of one’s religion. Some state governments continued not to recognize the Church of Scientology (COS) and other religious groups, which made these groups ineligible for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to federal firearm offenses.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religious belief and affiliation and states the country is not bound to any particular faith. A legal requirement to have a minimum of 20,000 adherents for registration as a religious group prevented some smaller groups from attaining official status as religious...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and prohibits religious organizations from exercising any political authority or receiving privileges from the state. The government continued to grant protective status to some religious adherents claiming persecution in their native countries, including...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The 2016 constitution continues to provide for freedom of religious belief and worship to all, consistent with law and order, and prohibits religious discrimination in employment. It emphasizes that religious tolerance is fundamental to the nation’s unity, national reconciliation, and social cohesion.
